ROLE: STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FORWARD DEPLOYMENT ENGINEER (FDE)

LOCATION: BENGALURU/CHENNAI - HYBRID (3 DAYS IN OFFICE PER WEEK)

ABOUT PEARSON

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, dedicated to helping people
make progress in their lives through education. We deliver high-quality content,
assessments, and digital services to learners, educators, and institutions
globally. Our mission is to empower every learner to achieve their potential.

ROLE SUMMARY

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE) who
thrives in ambiguity and is passionate about transforming complex business
challenges into measurable outcomes.

The Forward Deployment Engineer operates at the intersection of business
strategy, product thinking, software engineering, cloud engineering, security,
and AI-assisted delivery. This role partners directly with business leaders,
product teams, architects, engineers, and technology partners to discover
problems, shape solutions, build production-ready capabilities, establish
reusable engineering patterns,



and enable sustainable ownership across the
organisation.

The successful candidate combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution and
can rapidly move from business need to production outcome.

Success in this role requires the ability to:

* Solve the right problem.
* Deliver measurable outcomes.
* Establish repeatable engineering patterns.
* Accelerate engineering delivery.
* Enable permanent teams.
* Leave the organisation stronger after every engagement.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

PROBLEM DISCOVERY & SOLUTION SHAPING

* Partner with business, product, and technology stakeholders to identify and
solve high-value business problems.
* Analyse customer journeys, business processes, operating models, and
technical ecosystems.
* Translate ambiguous needs into clearly defined capabilities and measurable
outcomes.
* Challenge assump

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pearson
📍 Bengaluru