Forward-Deployed Engineering Lead, AI & Data Cloud

Google LLC; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 121.000 - 124.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Zusammenfassung

Google LLC’s Data Cloud team manages the data platform behind agentic AI offerings, including BigQuery, Managed Spark, and Lakehouse services. The Forward Deployed Engineering Manager will lead an FDE team to move customer workloads from prototype to production on these platforms, reviewing designs and guiding talent in a credible, CTO-facing manner.

You’ll be pivotal in bridging frontier data solutions with practical production systems, enabling scalable data pipelines and machine learning

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in cloud computing, technical sales engineering, or software engineering with cloud-native architectures.
• 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
• Experience reviewing designs and code in Python, PySpark and SQL.
• Experience designing platforms built on Data Cloud services (e.g., BigQuery, Managed Spark, Iceberg, Spanner, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Kafka).
• Experience building agentic AI systems on enterprise data (agents, retrieval, vector search, evaluation).

Aufgaben

• Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.
• Partner with sales and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating data engineering expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (MCP, tool‑calling, and foundation models, building agents), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving data stack.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Kenntnisse

Cloud computing

Technical leadership

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data cloud platforms

Agentic AI concepts

Executive communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

BigQuery

Managed Spark

Iceberg

Spanner

AlloyDB

Pub/Sub

Dataflow

Kafka

Jobbeschreibung

Google LLC’s Data Cloud team manages the data platform behind agentic AI offerings, including BigQuery, Managed Spark, and Lakehouse services. The Forward Deployed Engineering Manager will lead an FDE team to move customer workloads from prototype to production on these platforms, reviewing designs and guiding talent in a credible, CTO-facing manner.

You’ll be pivotal in bridging frontier data solutions with practical production systems, enabling scalable data pipelines and machine learning