Forward Deployed Data Engineer

Role Overview

As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer, you will design and implement modern enterprise data platforms that enable AI applications, analytics, and business processes. You will work directly with customers to build scalable data pipelines, data models, semantic layers, and integrations across SAP and non-SAP systems. This role is intended for engineers with 3–7 years of experience who enjoy solving complex data challenges in customer-facing environments.

What You Will Do

Design and implement scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, build data ingestion frameworks integrating SAP and non-SAP enterprise systems, develop logical and physical data models, semantic layers, and business schemas for AI applications, and implement data quality, lineage, governance, metadata management, and validation processes.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will collaborate with AI engineers, solution architects, and customer stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust data solutions, create reusable accelerators, reference data models, and engineering best practices, and optimize data storage, query performance, and distributed processing workloads.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related discipline
• 3–7 years of professional experience in data engineering or platform engineering
• Strong SQL and Python programming skills
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, or similar modern data platforms
• Experience designing enterprise data models, data lakes, lakehouses, and data warehouses
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SAP HANA, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent databases
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, metadata management, and data quality practices
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Exposure to SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Integration Suite, SAP BTP, or SAP AI Core is highly desirable

Benefits

• Constant learning, skill growth
• Great benefits
• A team that wants you to grow and succeed