Forward Deployed Engineer - Workfront

About the role

Adobe Workfront is the work management platform that enterprises use to plan, run and measure work across people, projects and approvals. The Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of software engineering, solution architecture and technical consulting. You will be embedded with Workfront's most strategic customers, solving hard platform challenges, designing scalable integrations and helping unblock adoption and expansion. You work in a small, autonomous cross-functional Customer Pod with end-to-end ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with strategic customers on their workflows, systems, security requirements and business goals.
• Turn customer problems into solution designs, reference architectures and working prototypes.
• Build and ship custom integrations and extensions across Workfront Workflow, Planning, Fusion, APIs and adjacent Adobe and third-party systems.
• Resolve production issues covering data, permissions, automation, reporting and performance.
• Lead architecture workshops, health checks and technical deep dives.
• Use AI-assisted tools as a standard part of how you work, and feed field patterns back to product and engineering.
• Mentor engineers in the pod and set practices for documenting decisions and learnings.
• Own the technical relationship with assigned accounts from discovery through go-live and expansion.

Required profile

• Typical background of 8 to 12 years in software engineering, solution architecture, technical consulting or customer-facing engineering; impact matters more than titles or years.
• Customer empathy, ownership at senior level, clear communication and business acumen.
• Software craft: writing code, building prototypes and shipping working software.
• Growth mindset and AI fluency, with a willingness to build toward agentic capabilities.

Required skills

• Modern languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.
• REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven patterns and tools like Workfront Fusion.
• AWS or Azure, plus reporting and analytics pipelines.
• Enterprise permissions, data privacy and regulated-industry constraints.
• Nice to have: Adobe Experience Cloud or Creative Cloud, SaaS work management or PPM, agentic or LLM-powered workflows, regulated industries, and a track record of driving architecture decisions.