Snowflake

Engineering

LeadForwardDeployedEngineer-Migration

$236–339k Menlo Park, California, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - Migration at Snowflake. Skills: Migration Project Execution, Software Development, Client Collaboration and Enablement, Platform Implementation, Performance Optimization & Best Practices, Modern Data Solutions, Troubleshooting and Support, Python, Go, Java, C++, AI/ML. lead scoping, architecture and direction as the FDE team embeds with customers to lead the modernization of their data and application ecosystem using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.. partner closely ”

What You'll Achieve.

customers achieve significant business value and success with Snowflake.; accelerate successful outcomes

Industry & Context.

Engineering
Problems you'll solve

Excellent problem-solving skills; analytical skills; Identify and resolve technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, and operational issues.

Eligibility Requirements

travel up to 20% of the time

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Prior experience working with customers on complex, multi-faceted projects., Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Python, Go, Java or C++., Experience with developing AI/ML applications., 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.

What You'll Do.

architecture and direction as the FDE team embeds with customers to lead the modernization of their data and application ecosystem using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

partner closely with clients to understand their business challenges to design

and implement cutting-edge data solutions on Snowflake.

act as a trusted technical advisor

ensuring customers achieve significant business value and success with Snowflake.

set architecture and direction for the team as it works to design

and deploy robust software systems

and automation required to support customer solutions on Snowflake.

contribute to our product. We build prototypes

contribute to feature development

fix problems that we find.

Provide expert technical guidance

and training to client teams on leveraging the Snowflake platform effectively

including data management

and reportingI integration.

Design scalable data pipelines and modern data architectures on Snowflake.

and efficient processing within the customer's modern data environment.

Analyze and optimize data models

and data processing workflows to maximize performance

and cost-effectiveness within the Snowflake environment.

Champion Snowflake best practices.

and implement modern data integration tools and techniques suitable for the Snowflake ecosystem

helping customers evolve their data capabilities.

Identify and resolve technical challenges

performance bottlenecks

and operational issues.

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

work with multiple FDE teams that each focus on a specific customer.; partner closely with clients; collaborate with teams and stakeholders

Communication Scope

Excellent communication skills

Process & Methodology

Migration Project Execution

Full Job Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. As a Lead Migrations Forward Deployed Engineer (Migration FDE), you will lead scoping, architecture and direction as the FDE team embeds with customers to lead the modernization of their data and application ecosystem using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. You will partner closely with clients to understand their business challenges to design, build, and implement cutting-edge data solutions on Snowflake. Your role is crucial in enabling customers to harness the full potential of their data, driving insights, and powering AI initiatives. You'll act as a trusted technical advisor, ensuring customers achieve significant business value and success with Snowflake. WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: - Migration Project Execution: You will work with multiple FDE teams that each focus on a specific customer. You’ll set architecture and direction for the team as it works to design, build, and deploy robust software systems, tooling, and automation required to support customer solutions on Snowflake. - Software Development: All Migration FDE members, leads and otherwise, contribute to our product. We build prototypes, contribute to feature development, fix problems that we find. Doing so helps drive impact on the roadmap and improves individual depth in the product itself. - Client Colla

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