Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - Migration

Responsibilities

• Lead scoping, architecture, and direction for FDE teams embedded with customers to modernize their data and application ecosystem using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
• Partner with clients to understand business challenges, design, build, and implement cutting-edge data solutions on Snowflake.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to help customers achieve significant business value and success with Snowflake.
• Set architecture and direction for multiple FDE teams focused on specific customers; design, build, and deploy robust software systems, tooling, and automation to support customer solutions on Snowflake.
• Contribute to product development by building prototypes, contributing to feature development, and fixing issues to drive roadmap impact and deepen product knowledge.
• Provide expert technical guidance, mentorship, and training to client teams on Snowflake platform capabilities including data management, analytics, AI/ML, and BI integration.
• Design scalable data pipelines and modern data architectures on Snowflake; ensure data quality, integrity, and efficient processing.
• Analyze and optimize data models, queries, and data processing workflows for performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness; champion Snowflake best practices.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement modern data integration tools and techniques for the Snowflake ecosystem.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, and operational issues.

Requirements

• Prior experience working with customers on complex, multi-faceted projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Python, Go, Java or C++.
• Experience with developing AI/ML applications.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing & data lake concepts, and cloud data platforms.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a client-facing environment.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time to collaborate with teams and stakeholders.

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience delivering complex data-driven application migrations.