Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - Migration
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer guiding customer teams on complex data and application migrations to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Designs scalable architectures, builds software/tools, optimizes performance, and provides technical mentorship while contributing to Snowflake product development. Requires customer-facing experience, strong programming skills, and data platform expertise.
About the job
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.
Skills
Python, Go, Java, C++, AI/ML, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Cloud Data Platforms, Snowflake, Data Pipelines, Performance Optimization
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