Forward Deployed Engineer | Finance

• €5,850–€7,150 gross per month based on 40 hours;

• 8% holiday allowance;

• Contract for 32 to 40 hours per week;

• A choice of a lease car or mobility allowance, on top of your salary;

• 27 vacation days and 4 study days;

• €3,600 personal development budget per year and room for certifications;

• Hybrid working with flexible working hours;

• A good pension scheme;

• Growth opportunities in a specialist track;

• International knowledge and development opportunities, combined with a close-knit Dutch team;

You ensure that AI doesn't just remain a financial pilot, but helps in the real work.

A clever AI demo makes an impression. But only when analysts and employees work with it every day does technology become valuable. Especially in finance, where reliability, auditability, and regulation are never an afterthought.

As a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you are involved from the very first conversation. You turn "we want to do something with AI" into a use case you can test within weeks, or you honestly say that it is (not yet) possible. After that, you design and build the solution and bring it live in cycles of days. And then you make yourself redundant.

You bridge the gap between business and technology: you sit at the table with the client, design the solution, and often implement it yourself.

• Sharpening use cases: together with business development, you conduct discovery interviews, test use cases against real data and systems, and build a proof-of-value in days.

• Designing and executing: you design the agentic architecture, choose the pattern that fits each situation, and bring the solution into production in short cycles, together with our AI Engineers.

• Handing over and measuring: the client can run the solution themselves, and after go-live, you measure whether it is actually being used. That is your benchmark.

• Making us smarter: what you learn, you make reusable for the next client, and you help new FDEs get started.

Approximately 10% of your time goes to pre-sales and 90% to delivery; business development holds commercial ownership.

You know the reality behind KYC/AML, customer onboarding, complaints and claims handling, financial reporting, risk, and compliance. Think of:

• KYC files that agents prepare with traceable sources, so that analysts can make well-founded decisions faster.

• Documents and signals that converge for a complaints or claims team.

• Reports that are currently manual work, automated within the frameworks of DORA and the EU AI Act.

Nice to have: experience with DORA, model risk management or audit trails, and with classical ML such as fraud and risk models.

• Not individual secondment. You work on projects on behalf of adesso, with a team behind you.

• Not a PoC graveyard. We build to use.

• Not slides without code. Your advice comes with a working version.

• Not an agent just because it's possible. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best, and you say so.

You will become part of our AI Engineering team: AI engineering consultants in two roles. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) owns the client problem and designs the solution, including the agentic architecture. The AI Engineer goes deep into build, data, MLOps, and scale, and thinks along with the client's question about the right approach.

You are given space to shape your own work, but you are never solely responsible for all specialisms.

Unsure which role fits you best? Just apply; we will look together. 

Why adesso? Because with us, you can truly help build.

At adesso Netherlands, it is about more than just technology. We build smart solutions that actually add value for our clients. No endless experiments or AI just because it's hip, but technology that works and makes an impact.

We are part of the international adesso Group, with over 11,500 colleagues in more than 60 locations. At the same time, we are a relatively small and personal team in the Netherlands, with short lines, a lot of freedom, and room for individual initiative.

Large enough to make an impact, small enough to feel the difference.

AI-native: we embrace AI, also in our own work

We believe that AI is fundamentally changing how we build software, work with data, and help customers. That is why we don't build isolated experiments, but data platforms, AI-first applications, and agentic solutions that truly become part of business processes.

That also applies to how we work ourselves. With our Agentic Delivery approach and our own tools, you can truly fly:

• Context and knowledge base: agents work with what is actually happening at the client, and knowledge and decisions remain traceable for both human and agent.

• AgentOps and governance: visibility into what agents do and control over what they are allowed to do, so they work safely and within the rules.

• adSCAILE: our own framework with which you build together with AI agents—integrated, safe, and traceable—in cycles of two to four days instead of sprints of weeks.

You use these tools daily and help develop them further. Moreover, adesso is a Select Partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network. And we remain critical: not everything needs to be done with AI. The best solution always comes first.

And perhaps most importantly: the people

You will join a team where craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, and knowledge sharing are central. You will work with experienced specialists and grow in technical vision and in responsibility for client relationships.

We love colleagues who are curious, share knowledge, and help each other forward. People who are good at their craft, but also enjoy collaborating. With us, you get trust, responsibility, and the freedom to actually execute ideas.

You don't have to meet every technical requirement. We are primarily curious about what you have built, what choices you have made, and where you want to grow.

A CV or LinkedIn profile is enough to start the conversation. This is followed by an introduction, a technical interview, and a practical case.

At adesso, you don't just work on the technology of tomorrow. You also get the space to help determine how we build it.