Forward deployed engineers for banks and financial services

Because the rules live in people’s heads and in month-end exceptions, not in the specification. A trade confirmation process looks simple until the engineer learns that a regulator requires each client to be confirmed individually, that the ledger arrives as one PDF, and that three clients have two phone numbers each. An engineer who has spent a week with the operations team builds for the real process. One working from a document builds for the imagined one.

Every system gets only the access its task needs. Everything it reads, decides and does is logged. Data can stay in the bank’s own cloud or country, and it is never used to train models. Anything that affects a customer or moves money goes through a person. Systems are tested against misuse before launch, monitored with alerts after, and can be switched off by the bank’s own operations team at any time. A free consultation and a six-week pilot come before any larger commitment.

A named sponsor who can make decisions, access to the people who do the work, and access to the data and systems in scope, production or mirrored. Core banking integration slots usually need booking weeks ahead, so that goes on the list in week one. Historical data for testing is rarely available, so the engineer builds the test set deliberately.