Datafold - Forward Deployed Data Engineer
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 patterns (stored procedures, streaming, incremental processing) • Extreme ownership mentality — you identify, surface, and fix problems and rally the team to help without being told • 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
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 • 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
• USA$155K – $200K • Offers Equity • Actual salary will be based on job level, experience and location. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Please briefly describe your experience of managing an external clients data migration
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