Forward Deployed Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• ▹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, escalate risks early before they compound
• ▹Configure Datafold's Migration Agent and oversee migration execution
• ▹Partner with Datafold's engineering team to execute migrations
• ▹Help refine and scale the product and delivery playbook as the team grows

Requirements

• ▹3-6 years in data consulting, professional services, or a customer-facing data engineering role
• ▹Excellent communication skills, equally comfortable in an exec check-in and a technical design session
• ▹Strong grasp of the modern data stack: dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, orchestration tools, and major migration patterns (stored procedures, streaming, incremental processing)
• ▹Extreme ownership mentality: identifies, surfaces, and fixes problems, rallies the team without being told
• ▹AI power user: uses AI daily and keeps learning how to use it more effectively

Nice to have

• ▹Exposure to legacy data stack and patterns (ETL, stored procedures)
• ▹Experience with data platform migration projects

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary + equity

About the company

Datafold is a data engineering automation platform delivering large-scale data platform migrations with AI at fixed price and guaranteed timeline, partnering closely with leading data platforms including Databricks and Snowflake.