Head of Forward-Deployed Data Engineering

Nextdata; Norway; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home workspace stipend

Premium health insurance

Vision and dental coverage

Company laptop

Equity in the company

Job summary

Nextdata is seeking a founding Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to take Nextdata OS from PoC to production within large data teams. You will design the solution, run delivery, and lead a team of engineers and partners up to about ten people on a single account.

This hands‑on leadership role requires writing code when needed, aligning scope with sales, feeding the roadmap with field learnings, and building a repeatable playbook for future deployments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical, customer‑facing engineering roles delivering data platforms in large enterprises.
• Led delivery teams of 5–10+ people including contractors or SI partners on complex deployments.
• Strong hands‑on engineering skills: Python and SQL, Snowflake/Databricks/Spark/dbt, and cloud infra (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Able to design for a customer's messy reality and explain trade‑offs to engineers and executives.
• Excellent project management to turn goals into plans, milestones, and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Architect the solution turning business problems into a concrete Nextdata OS design.
• Own deployment end to end: define success, plan, sequence work, unblock the team, and reach production.
• Lead and mentor forward deployed engineers, contractors, and SI partners on the account.
• Stay hands‑on by writing code and debugging in customer environments when fastest.
• Shape offerings by participating in technical discovery and scoping with sales.
• Feed the roadmap with field learnings and partner with product/engineering on gaps.
• Build the playbook defining methods, tooling, and hiring bar for future deployments.

Skills

Technical leadership

Forward deployed engineering

Solution architecture

Python

SQL

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Data platforms production

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

dbt

Kubernetes

Job description

Nextdata is seeking a founding Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to take Nextdata OS from PoC to production within large data teams. You will design the solution, run delivery, and lead a team of engineers and partners up to about ten people on a single account.

This hands‑on leadership role requires writing code when needed, aligning scope with sales, feeding the roadmap with field learnings, and building a repeatable playbook for future deployments.