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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Company | Snowflake |
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Location | Menlo Park, CA, USA |
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Salary | $195000 – $287500 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 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.
- To accelerate successful outcomes and foster trust, the role may involve travel up to 20% of the time to collaborate with teams and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy robust software systems, tooling, and automation required to support customer solutions on Snowflake.
- Create comprehensive documentation for developed solutions, technical configurations, and best practices.
- Design and implement scalable data pipelines and modern data architectures on Snowflake.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and efficient processing within the customer’s modern data environment.
- Analyze and optimize data models, queries, and data processing workflows to maximize performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness within the Snowflake environment.
- Champion Snowflake best practices.
- Evaluate, recommend, and implement modern data integration tools and techniques suitable for the Snowflake ecosystem, helping customers evolve their data capabilities.
- Provide expert technical guidance, mentorship, and training to client teams on leveraging the Snowflake platform effectively, including data management, analytics, AI/ML capabilities, and reporting/BI integration.
- Identify and resolve technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, and operational issues.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience working with relational databases and data integration technologies.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience implementing solutions on the Snowflake Data Cloud.