Data Cloud FDE Leader for Enterprise AI & Big Data

Google LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's Data Cloud team seeks an Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to lead an FDE team, moving customers' data and ML workloads from prototype to production on BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog.

You will review designs, guide architecture, and hire senior engineers while collaborating with Sales, Product, and Engineering to deliver high-value customer solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, 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, Forward Deployed 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/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, 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, foundation models, build agents), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving data stack.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Skills

Cloud computing

Team leadership

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data cloud platforms

AI/ML data pipelines

Executive engagement

Data engineering

Architectural review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS or related field

Job description

Google Cloud's Data Cloud team seeks an Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to lead an FDE team, moving customers' data and ML workloads from prototype to production on BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog.

You will review designs, guide architecture, and hire senior engineers while collaborating with Sales, Product, and Engineering to deliver high-value customer solutions at scale.