Datafold
Forward Deployed Data Engineer
USA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
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About the role
- This is a high-ownership, customer-facing role at the intersection of data engineering, AI, and project leadership.
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, and escalate risks early before they compound
- Partner with Datafold's engineering team to execute migrations
- Excellent communication skills - equally comfortable in an exec check-in and a technical design session
Requirements
- 3-6 years in data consulting, professional services, or a customer-facing data engineering role
Nice to have
- Extreme ownership mentality - you identify, surface, and fix problems and rally the team to help without being told
- Exposure to legacy data stack and patterns (ETL, stored procedures, etc.) and data platform migration projects is a strong plus
Compensation
- Competitive salary + equity
Benefits
- AI power user - using AI every day and always learning and improving on how to use it more effectively
Company info
- Datafold is the data engineering automation platform.
- A major part of our business is delivering large-scale data engineering projects such as data platform migrations with AI, at fixed price and guaranteed timeline.
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