Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - Migration

The role

You will lead scoping, architecture, and direction as the FDE team embeds with customers to modernize their data and application ecosystem using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. You will design, build, and implement data solutions and act as a technical advisor to clients.

What you will do

• Set architecture and direction for teams to design, build, and deploy software systems, tooling, and automation.
• Build prototypes, contribute to feature development, and fix problems to drive product roadmap impact.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and training to client teams on the Snowflake platform.
• Design scalable data pipelines and modern data architectures on Snowflake.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and efficient processing.
• Analyze and optimize data models, queries, and workflows for performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement modern data integration tools.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, and operational issues.

Required qualifications

• 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.

Nice to have

• prior experience delivering complex data-driven application migrations

About the company

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