Senior Remote Forward-Deployed Data Engineer

Matillion; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 84,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Equity

30 days holiday

Volunteer leave

Private Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Pension

Mental health support

Job summary

Matillion is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead Maia rollouts, working remotely with distributed teams and on-site when needed. You’ll own engagements, architect data solutions, and influence product feedback acrossSales, Product, Engineering and Customer Success.

You will build scalable data pipelines, modify code when features are missing, and drive fast MVPs while ensuring security and quality standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production-grade software development and data integration, featuring expert Python, SQL, and object-oriented skills (Java/Go) for designing reusable architectures and refactoring complex codebases.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, data architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes, secure enterprise networking, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands-on expertise in scalable data pipelines and cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or BigQuery, alongside familiarity with the broader Matillion product estate.
• Disciplined use of AI tools across the delivery process with the ability to validate output, supported by optional experience in production LLMs, RAG, and AI agents.
• Proven background in customer-facing technical delivery, spanning pre-sales technical discovery, hands-on implementation, and escalation management.
• Excellent communication skills to connect with both C-suite executives and technical developers during complex debugging sessions.
• Strong engineering judgement and systems thinking to make sound architectural trade-offs between speed, scalability, and maintainability under ambiguity.
• Execution bias and high autonomy to deliver working production systems independently in high-pressure environments.
• Deep customer empathy and rapport-building capabilities that establish long-term trust with technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Founder mentality and a multiplier mindset to take full ownership of outcomes while elevating the performance of surrounding team members.

Responsibilities

• Owning end-to-end customer engagements by running discovery, architecting multi-cloud deployments, writing production-grade code, and guiding projects through to production cut-over.
• Building complex data pipelines, models, and integrations across cloud data platforms to ensure customers achieve the core outcomes they adopted Maia for.
• Modifying Matillion’s underlying codebase directly when native platform features are missing, adhering to strict engineering, security, and quality standards.
• Delivering fast, pragmatic MVPs by diagnosing real underlying customer problems, questioning initial requirements, and shrinking scope to accelerate platform adoption.
• Cultivating executive trust and serving as a cross-functional catalyst across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to resolve complex escalations at the first point of contact.
• Enabling total customer self-sufficiency by training internal champions and creating clear handover documentation for Customer Success and Support teams upon project exit.
• Securing technical wins during pre-sales cycles through technical discovery, proof of concept deliveries, objection handling, and joint strategy work with Account Executives.
• Influencing product evolution by identifying repeating delivery patterns, submitting structured product feedback, and building reusable implementation frameworks that minimize future custom work.
• Working agentic-first by integrating AI tools across the entire delivery lifecycle while setting clear quality validation standards for AI-generated outputs.
• Elevating team performance by mentoring junior engineers, shaping hiring standards, refining delivery processes, and continuously updating expertise in emerging AI and cloud tech.

Skills

Python

SQL

Java/Go

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Snowflake

Databricks

AI tools

Customer delivery

Job description

Matillion is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead Maia rollouts, working remotely with distributed teams and on-site when needed. You’ll own engagements, architect data solutions, and influence product feedback acrossSales, Product, Engineering and Customer Success.

You will build scalable data pipelines, modify code when features are missing, and drive fast MVPs while ensuring security and quality standards.