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Forward Deployed Data Engineer

Remote, Europe, European Union·Full-time·Added 3 months ago

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Datafold

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Overview

Job details

€85,000 - €135,000 a year
Gross, as stated in the ad.
About €4,640 - €6,930 a month after tax, or €5,060 - €8,230 under the Beckham regime.
Full-time hours
Per the ad.
Fully remote
Only from certain places, per the ad: “Job Location: Europe, European Union”
Blue Card threshold
Indicative — the ad doesn’t promise sponsorship.

Requirements

Work in English
English is required, per the ad.
Have 3+ years of experience
Mid-level role.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Competitive salary + equity

The role

Datafold is hiring a Forward Deployed Data Engineer to own the delivery of our AI-automated data platform migration projects. This is a high-ownership, customer-facing role at the intersection of data engineering, AI, and project leadership.

As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer leveraging Datafold's AI technology, you will own migration projects end-to-end, gain deep understanding of the customer's data platform, manage execution of the project, and remove any blockers on the way for a timely migration delivery.

Using our proprietary AI tooling to plan and deliver the migration projects, you will be doing the work equivalent to a full team of consultants.

What you'll do

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

What We're Looking For

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

About Datafold

Datafold is a data reliability platform that helps data teams automate the testing and validation of data pipelines. The company provides tools for data diffing, column-level lineage, and CI/CD integration, enabling organizations to detect and resolve data quality issues before they impact downstream consumers. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, Datafold has quickly gained traction in the data engineering community and is backed by notable investors.

Founded: 2020
Employees: 11–50
Headquarters: San Francisco, USA

Good to know if you are moving

Datafold is a remote-first company, allowing employees to work from anywhere, including Spain.
The company is hiring a Forward Deployed Data Engineer for the EU region, indicating a focus on European customers and a need for local support.
Datafold's tech stack includes modern data tools like Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, making it attractive for data engineers with these skills.
As a startup, Datafold offers the opportunity to have a significant impact on product development and company growth.
The company values a strong engineering culture and offers competitive compensation, including equity.

In their own words

About the company & team

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. We are not a typical services provider or SI - we are a venture-backed software company that reimagined automation from the ground up and has been delivering projects up to 6x faster than alternatives.

We partner heavily with leading data platforms, including Databricks and Snowflake, to deliver large-scale complex migrations.

Additional information

Datafold is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are valued and unique perspectives are respected and celebrated.

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