Lead Forward Deployed Engineer – Migration
Snowflake · AU-Melbourne · Sydney, Australia
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At a glance
Highlights
- Lead hands-on migration projects for top ANZ enterprises moving to Snowflake.
- Own target architecture from assessment through confident production cutover.
- Turn field lessons into global migration patterns and best practices.
Ideal candidate
A customer-facing data architect with 8+ years experience who thrives leading complex migrations. Low-ego, AI-curious collaborator energized by solving high-impact problems onsite with customers across ANZ.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing or database architecture, including customer-facing consulting or delivery work
- Hands-on experience leading at least one large data warehouse or database migration to a cloud data platform
- Deep SQL skills and strong knowledge of data modeling, performance tuning and data warehouse design
- Experience with ETL/ELT tools such as Informatica, DataStage, Talend, dbt or similar, and with orchestration and pipeline design
- Programming experience in Python, Java or Scala
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
- Clear communication with technical teams and business stakeholders, including leading workshops and presenting recommendations
- Ability to travel to customer sites within Australia and New Zealand as needed
Lab profile
About Snowflake
Cloud data platform for storage, analytics, data sharing, and enterprise AI workloads.
What they build
- Snowflake Data Cloud
- Data warehousing and data lakes
- Snowpark developer framework
Known for
- Elastic scalable cloud architecture
- Secure governance and data sharing
- Multi-cloud analytics and AI
Key facts
- Founded in 2012
- Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana
- Public company (NYSE: SNOW)
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