Forward Deployment Engineer

Join a customer-facing engineering team focused on transforming complex data challenges into scalable, production-ready solutions. In this role, you will combine solution architecture, technical consulting, and hands-on engineering to help enterprise customers build real-time data applications. You will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to understand their objectives, design effective architectures, and bring innovative solutions into production. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you will guide strategic discussions while taking ownership of execution and delivery. You will collaborate with Sales, Product, Solutions Engineering, and Engineering teams to align customer needs with technical capabilities. This opportunity is particularly suited to experienced technical professionals who thrive in customer partnerships, enjoy solving complex problems, and balance innovation with practical implementation. Candidates based in the New York City area or within commuting distance are preferred.

The ideal candidate combines substantial technical experience with strong customer engagement skills, architectural expertise, and a proven ability to deliver complex solutions in production environments.

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution engineering, or technical consulting, across pre-sales and/or post-sales environments.

• Strong foundational knowledge of databases, distributed systems, or software engineering.

• Demonstrated experience delivering production-grade technical solutions in customer-facing environments.

• Experience integrating complex systems across data pipelines, applications, and infrastructure.

• Ability to translate ambiguous business and technical requirements into clear architectural plans and executable delivery strategies.

• Experience working with enterprise customers, preferably in financial services or high-tech industries.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to engage and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A pragmatic, delivery-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance technical innovation against implementation complexity, business priorities, and realistic timelines.

• Ability to align proposed solutions with existing product capabilities and roadmap priorities to ensure feasibility and impact.

• Willingness and ability to work directly with customers in a customer-facing engineering capacity.

• Candidates based in the New York City metropolitan area or within a commutable distance are preferred.