{"id":212710,"date":"2026-05-12T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/the-second-coming-of-secondments-fdes-hit-the-cfo-office\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:20:14","slug":"the-second-coming-of-secondments-fdes-hit-the-cfo-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/the-second-coming-of-secondments-fdes-hit-the-cfo-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Coming of Secondments? FDE\u2019s Hit the CFO Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/second-coming-secondments-forward-deployment-engineers-hit-cfo-office\/\">The Second Coming of Secondments? FDE\u2019s Hit the CFO Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/second-coming-secondments-forward-deployment-engineers-hit-cfo-office\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/second-coming-secondments-forward-deployment-engineers-hit-cfo-office\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 11:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silicon Valley is changing Wall Street&#8217;s traditional practice of secondment by embedding forward deployed engineers (FDEs) from AI vendors within customer organizations to customize and integrate AI models.<\/li>\n<li>FDEs are technical specialists who focus on making AI software work reliably within complex organizations, shifting the AI strategy from a procurement issue to an operational capability concern.<\/li>\n<li>The success of AI deployment has shown to be human-intensive, despite the prevalent automation rhetoric surrounding AI.<\/li>\n<li>Major companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are investing in FDEs to enhance AI integration and deployment within enterprise organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Historically, finance operations are leading AI adoption in enterprises, owing to their structured data and processes.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations now seek operational outcomes rather than just a software license, with vendors taking on more responsibility for integration success, employee adoption, and reducing governance risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Coming of Secondments? FDE\u2019s Hit the CFO Office https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/second-coming-secondments-forward-deployment-engineers-hit-cfo-office\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-12 11:45:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/B2B-AI-forward-deployment-engineers.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212712,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212710\/revisions\/212712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}