LEIT DATA’s Forward Deployed Architect (FDA) and Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) offering helps organisations uncover the business and delivery friction that slows transformation programmes before it becomes expensive or difficult to reverse. Designed for CIOs, CDOs, and transformation sponsors, the service combines stakeholder interviews, process review, collaborative workshops, and system evidence to identify where delays, inefficiencies, and route-to-live risks are building up across programmes such as ERP, AI/ML, modern data platforms, and regulatory change.
What makes this approach different is that it looks at both sides of the problem at the same time. The FDA focuses on business friction such as process inefficiencies, data quality issues, master data gaps, governance blockers, and reporting delays, while the FDE examines delivery friction including release bottlenecks, fragile pipelines, environment delays, observability gaps, and cost waste. These issues are then quantified using a simple model based on hours, cost, and frequency, giving leadership a clear evidence base for prioritisation and decision-making.
Evidence-backed delivery from discovery to managed run-state.
Recommendations tied to stakeholder insight, process review, and operational evidence.
We quantify business and delivery friction (hours x cost x frequency) before transformation spend is locked in.
Human approval gates, audit trails, and compliance mapping, not ad-hoc AI or workshop theatre.
From discovery through DataOps, security, FinOps, and managed run-state.
| Capability | What it addresses | Where we help |
|---|---|---|
| Tagging & Metadata | Observability gaps, access and governance, audit evidence | FDA/FDE, Platform Assessment, Data Model Studio, Data Care Pack |
| Security & Compliance | Posture visibility, audit evidence, policy gaps | Security Package, FDA/FDE, Platform Assessment, Data Care Pack |
| DataOps / CI-CD | Environment delays, release friction, pipeline fragility | FDA/FDE, Business Value Accelerator, Data Care Pack |
| FinOps & Cost Optimisation | Cost waste, chargeback gaps, forecast uncertainty | FinOps app, FDA/FDE, Data Care Pack |
| Transformation | Data quality, MDM, platform modernisation | FDA/FDE, Platform Assessment, Data Model Studio |
| Agentic Delivery / SDLC | Delivery throughput, human-in-the-loop governance, tool sprawl | Business Value Accelerator, FDA/FDE, Platform Assessment |