Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Data Cloud, Google Cloud

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,800,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India seeks a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager for Google Cloud's Data Cloud. You will lead a Forward Deployed Engineering team, delivering customer-ready data and ML workloads on BigQuery, Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog.

You will review designs and code, influence data platform decisions, and guide engineering talent. This role blends technical leadership with customer-facing impact in a fast-moving AI-enabled cloud

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards and architectural best practices across the team.
• Partner with business and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities and deploy experts to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) and evaluate data engineering, systems engineering and coding skills.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (MCP, tool-calling, foundation models, building agents) and maintain expertise in evolving data stack.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps and internal tooling.

Skills

Cloud computing

Technical leadership

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data Cloud platforms

BigQuery

Spanner

AlloyDB

Pub/Sub

Dataflow

Kafka

Agentic AI

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

BigQuery

Spanner

AlloyDB

Pub/Sub

Dataflow

Kafka

Iceberg

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Data Cloud, Google Cloud

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AdvancedAdvancedExperience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in cloud computing, technical business engineering, or software engineering with cloud-native architectures.
• 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, FDE, or a related 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/Lightning Engine, Apache Iceberg (e.g., Borderless Lakehouse), Spanner, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Kafka).
• Experience building agentic AI systems on enterprise data (e.g., agents, retrieval, vector search, evaluation).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading forward deployed engineering, field engineering or professional services organizations at a data platform or AI-first company or a hyperscaler’s data and machine learning services team.
• Experience engaging credibly with multi-level executives and with engineers.
• Experience across a broad range of data cloud specializations, including data engineering, data science/machine learning, application development, operations, and investigative databases/data management.
• Experience building end-to-end data pipelines, engineering features, and training/deploying machine learning models.
• Experience with RAG architectures, chunking/indexing strategies, vector databases, hybrid search, and the use of data governance for grounding agents in enterprise context.

About the job

Google Cloud’s Data Cloud team builds the data platform behind Google’s agentic AI offerings: BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog, integrated with Gemini Enterprise. As a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, you will lead a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team for Google Cloud’s Data Cloud. You will bridge the gap between frontier data solutions and production-grade reality for customers. You will take customer data and machine learning workloads from prototype to production on BigQuery, managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog. You will be a technical leader first: credible with Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and data platform leaders, able to review your team’s designs and code, and a strong judge of engineering talent. It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.
• Partner with business and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), evaluating data engineering expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (e.g., Model Context Protocol (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.

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