Forward Deployed Data Engineer - Houston
Houstononsitemid$180K – $230K
via Greenhouse
About this role
The Opportunity As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer (FDE) on our US Launch Team, you will act as the principal technical anchor embedded directly within high-stakes enterprise client accounts (focusing heavily on the Energy Sector). You won't just be writing specs or advising from afar—you will be on the front lines in client environments, bridging the gap between C-suite data strategy and hands-on production code. Working at the tip of the spear alongside our elite partners at Databricks and Anthropic , you will lead architecture design, modernize brittle legacy ecosystems into cloud-native Lakehouses, build agentic AI data harnesses, and guide integrated "SWAT" pods to ship working software in weeks rather than months.…
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Skills match
For this role: python, sql, databricks, aws, gcp…
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Level fit
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Domain experience
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Recency
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Location fit
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