Forward Deployed Engineer

Validio; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Validio is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate closely with our largest customers. You will design and implement production-grade data pipelines and integrations on the Validio platform, owning deployments end-to-end and translating real-world data needs into robust solutions.

You will collaborate with Customer Success and Engineering to turn customer realities into reusable product feedback, applying data quality, observability, and governance best practices in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Fluency with the modern data stack, especially SQL.
• Comfort in front of customers, translating between their teams and ours.
• Ownership mindset — you scope, build, and ship with autonomy.
• Experience with data quality, observability, or governance.
• A consulting, solutions, or forward-deployed background.
• Time spent in a startup or scale-up.

Responsibilities

• Embed with the biggest customers to solve their hardest data problems.
• Design and build production data pipelines and integrations on Validio.
• Own deployments from kickoff through to a stable, adopted solution.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Customer Success and Engineering.
• Turn customer reality into product feedback and reusable solutions.

Skills

SQL

Customer facing

Ownership mindset

Data governance

Data quality

Observability

Startup experience

Job description

Validio is the agentic data management platform that automates data quality, lineage, and cataloging — so enterprises can finally trust the data behind their analytics, AI, and reporting. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're who we send in when the problem is hardest and the customer matters most. You'll embed with our largest customers and make Validio work in the reality of their data.

Part engineer, part trusted advisor — you'll design and build production-grade solutions on Validio, own deployments end to end, and turn what you learn on the ground into a better product.

What you'll do

• Embed with our biggest customers to solve their hardest data problems
• Design and build production data pipelines and integrations on Validio
• Own deployments from kickoff through to a stable, adopted solution
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Customer Success and Engineering
• Turn customer reality into product feedback and reusable solutions

What you'll bring

• Fluency with the modern data stack, and especially SQL
• Comfort in front of customers, translating between their teams and ours
• An ownership mindset — you scope, build, and ship with autonomy
• Experience with data quality, observability, or governance
• A consulting, solutions, or forward-deployed background
• Time spent in a startup or scale-up

Why Validio

Founded in Sweden in 2019, we're trusted by data-driven enterprises like Nordea, Canva, and Truecaller. Data quality is becoming the foundation everything else — analytics, AI, agents — is built on, and we're defining that category. You'll do the highest-impact technical work there is — making trusted data real inside the world's most demanding enterprises.

Come as you are. We hire for what you'll build with us, and we welcome applicants of every background.