Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect
maltego
| Company | maltego |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Washington |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 23 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 3 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (personio) |
Description
We are standing up forward deployed engineering for our U.S. Federal business. This is a new, senior, high-visibility position - the first of its kind on our U.S. team - created to support a major federal civilian customer as our vetting and open-source investigative capabilities scale for National Security mission sets. This role is not a help desk function nor a back-office integration job. This position requires someone who understands government customers, can hold a technical conversation with engineers and a mission conversation with analysts, and can operate independently inside a customer environment while representing Maltego with credibility. This position is intentionally designed as a hybrid technical leadership role that bridges customer mission success, product evolution, and deployment execution. The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect serves as the primary technical interface between Maltego Federal, government stakeholders, and internal engineering teams, requiring a balanced focus across customer engagement, solution delivery, and strategic growth activities. In short, you are the bridge between a sophisticated government mission set and our engineering organization, and you will own the technical relationship as the account expands across the enterprise. As Maltego Federal's first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will serve as the primary technical representative within a strategic federal customer environment, ensuring mission requirements are successfully translated into deployed, operational capabilities. Your responsibilities will include: Customer Technical Leadership Serve as the embedded technical lead and trusted advisor to government analysts, program managers, and technical stakeholders. Lead requirements discovery sessions, workflow design workshops, and operational reviews. Guide analyst adoption and ensure mission outcomes are achieved through effective platform utilization. Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering, product, and deployment priorities. Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships across customer organizations. Integration and Solution Development Design and implement end-to-end integration architectures connecting Maltego into customer systems, enclaves, and third-party technologies. Develop and guide custom transforms, automations, and integrations Support data-source onboarding, identity resolution workflows, and automated discovery processes. Deliver scalable technical solutions that extend platform capabilities within customer environments. Deployment, Security, and Accreditation Support Support deployment activities across SaaS, government-hosted, and classified environments. Contribute technical artifacts and documentation supporting ATO and accreditation efforts. Validate solution performance, security controls, and operational readiness. Support pilot deployments, initial operating capability, and enterprise rollout activities. Product Feedback and Operational Optimization Evaluate AI classifier performance, detection accuracy, precision/recall trade-offs, and analyst review workflows. Measure operational outcomes and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Convert customer feedback into prioritized, evidence-based requirements for engineering and product teams. Act as a conduit between customer users, product management, and engineering. Federal Growth and Practice Development Support technical solutioning, demonstrations, and responses to government requirements. Identify opportunities for account expansion and increased mission impact. Contribute to the development of forward-deployed engineering methodologies, playbooks, and