Lead Forward Deployed Engineer – Migration

The role

You will lead scoping, architecture, and technical direction as FDE teams embed with customers to modernize data and application ecosystems on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. You will design, build, and implement modern data solutions and act as a technical advisor to help customers unlock data potential.

What you will do

• Set architecture and technical direction for software systems, tooling, and automation for customer migrations.
• Build prototypes, contribute to feature development, and fix problems to help shape the product roadmap.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to customer teams.
• Design scalable data pipelines and modern data architectures on Snowflake.
• Analyse and optimise data models, queries, and processing workflows.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement modern data integration tools and techniques.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, and operational issues.

Required qualifications

• Experience working directly with customers on complex, multi-faceted technical projects
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Go, Java or C++
• Experience developing AI/ML applications
• Strong understanding of data modelling, data warehousing, data lakes and cloud data platforms
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a customer-facing environment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience delivering complex data and application migrations to the cloud

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.