Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform

About Us

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

Purpose and Scope

We’re seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform to join eSimplicity’s Rapid Innovation Center (the RIC). The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform works primarily with internal stakeholders, including program teams, growth teams, executives, business unit CTOs, security leaders, and engineering teams, to identify high-value operational and mission problems and shape the platform, DevOps, cloud, integration, and automation foundations needed to deliver working prototypes and MVPs from concept through validation.

As part of a small, high-trust team, this engineer is expected to take initiative, work effectively through ambiguity, and bring sound judgment to fast-moving technical challenges. The role requires ownership, adaptability, and close collaboration to help internal teams move quickly while establishing reliable developer workflows, secure cloud patterns, CI/CD practices, observability, infrastructure automation, and reusable platform foundations that can be adopted across the company.

The role may engage external customers when needed to understand mission context, validate assumptions, or support a program or pursuit, but its primary purpose is to help internal teams move faster and turn validated ideas into repeatable company capabilities.

This is a Staff-level, hands-on technical role for someone who can move fluidly across discovery, solution shaping, architecture, and implementation while partnering with product, program, security, and engineering leaders. This is an individual contributor role with technical leadership responsibilities; it does not include direct people-management responsibilities or ownership of companywide AI governance. Successful work is matured into repeatable patterns, reusable components, reference architectures, adoption guidance, and transition plans that other eSimplicity programs and capture teams can adopt.

This position is contingent upon contract award. 

Responsibilities

• Partner with program teams, growth teams, executives, business unit CTOs, security leaders, engineering teams, and other internal stakeholders to identify high-value operational or mission problems, clarify needs, define success measures, and translate ambiguity into executable solution approaches.
• Partner with product and design stakeholders to conduct interviews, discovery sessions, and workflow analysis, then translate those insights into user-centered concepts, interaction patterns, prototypes, and validation approaches for mission-aligned solutions.
• Shape pragmatic solution approaches and contribute directly to architecture, code, integrations, demos, AI applications, data solutions, platform services, prototypes, and MVPs from discovery through validation and transition planning.
• Make clear technical tradeoffs across speed, security, scalability, reuse, maintainability, cost, operational readiness, and mission value.
• Design and integrate systems, APIs, data sources, cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, release automation, identity controls, observability, monitoring, and deployment automation using Agile, DevSecOps, DataOps, and AnalyticOps practices.
• Build and evolve reusable platform capabilities, including services, APIs, developer workflows, CI/CD templates, infrastructure automation, environment patterns, data integration patterns, secure cloud patterns, and shared technical components that multiple programs and engineering teams can adopt.
• Apply existing security, privacy, and responsible AI expectations appropriate to prototype or MVP maturity, including PII/PHI protection, access control, auditability, transparency, human oversight, and escalation of governance decisions to the appropriate company or program owners.
• Mature successful work into reusable components, implementation patterns, reference architectures, adoption guidance, and transition plans for scaled development, sustainment, or reuse across programs and capture teams.
• Enable adoption through workshops, whiteboarding sessions, onboarding materials, playbooks, technical reviews, and coaching that help internal teams understand, trust, and reuse RIC-built capabilities.
• Mentor engineers, architects, and delivery teams by sharing patterns, reviewing solution approaches, and raising the technical bar across engagements.
• Other duties as assigned.