Senior Consultant - Forward deployed Engineer | Finance, Data en Agentic AI

EYAmsterdamHybridFull-time2 weeks ago

EY's Finance Consulting practice is seeking a Senior Consultant: Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with clients at the intersection of Finance, Data and Agentic AI. The role involves building and connecting enterprise data platforms, delivering analytics and agentic workflows, and deploying solutions from discovery through production. Requires strong Python and SQL skills, hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric or comparable platforms, and at least 3 years of professional experience.

What you'll do

Work directly with business users, domain experts and technology teams to understand processes, decisions, controls and operational challenges.
Investigate existing systems and data to establish what is happening and where intervention will create value.
Translate business needs into solution designs, data requirements, acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes.
Use short development cycles and user feedback to validate assumptions and improve the solution.
Develop source-system connections, ingestion pipelines, transformations and governed data models.
Build Lakehouse and analytical solutions using Microsoft Fabric, or comparable platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.
Implement reconciliations, data-quality checks and traceability from business outputs back to source records.
Contribute to enterprise system implementations, integration design, data migration and validation.
Build reporting products, analytical tools and applications that support business decisions and operations.
Develop agents that use governed data, APIs and enterprise tools to investigate issues, support analysis and execute approved workflows.
Integrate solutions with existing ERP, accounting, planning and operational systems.
Define agent permissions, evaluation criteria, exception handling and human approval points alongside domain and control owners.
Apply tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and comparable coding agents to development, documentation, test generation and regression analysis.
Provide agents with clear specifications, business context, constraints and verifiable acceptance criteria.
Review generated code and independently validate results before deployment.
Develop repeatable approaches to agent-assisted delivery while maintaining engineering accountability.
Own version control, testing, release preparation, deployment and monitoring.
Work with client IT, security and platform teams to meet production requirements.
Support adoption, resolve operational issues and improve solutions using evidence and user feedback.
Turn successful implementations into reusable connectors, components, control patterns and deployment playbooks.

What you need

Must-have

PythonSQLMicrosoft FabricDatabricksSnowflakePySparkAPIsData modelling

Nice-to-have

Semantic modellingERP implementationsData migrationDutch language

Soft skills

Stakeholder collaborationDelivery ownershipCommunicationBusiness understandingHands-on leadership

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