Forward Deployed Data Engineer

• Datafold is hiring a Forward Deployed Data Engineer to own the delivery of our AI-automated data platform migration projects
• This is a high-ownership, customer-facing role at the intersection of data engineering, AI, and project leadership
• As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer leveraging Datafold’s AI technology, you will own migration projects end-to-end, gain deep understanding of the customer’s data platform, manage execution of the project, and remove any blockers on the way for a timely migration delivery
• Using our proprietary AI tooling to plan and deliver the migration projects, you will be doing the work equivalent to a full team of consultants
• Own 1–4 concurrent migration projects end-to-end: scoping, planning, execution, and customer handoff
• Be the primary customer contact: run weekly check-ins, manage stakeholder expectations, and escalate risks early before they compound
• Configure Datafold’s Migration Agent and oversee the migration execution
• Partner with Datafold’s engineering team to execute migrations
• Help refine and scale our product and delivery playbook as the team grows

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Co-working budget
• Home office budget
• Flexible working hours
• Parental leave- Excellent communication skills — equally comfortable in an exec check-in and a technical design session
• AI power user — using AI every day and always learning and improving on how to use it more effectively
• Exposure to legacy data stack and patterns (ETL, stored procedures, etc.) and data platform migration projects is a strong plus
• 3–6 years in data consulting, professional services, or a customer-facing data engineering role
• Strong grasp of the modern data stack: dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, orchestration tools, and major patterns (stored procedures, streaming, incremental processing)
• Extreme ownership mentality — you identify, surface, and fix problems and rally the team to help without being told