Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer / Lead Forward-Deployed Engineeress

Job Opportunity: Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer (Data Platform)

We are seeking a talented Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer (Data Platform) to join our team in the broader Zurich area, Switzerland, in a hybrid working mode. In this role, you will contribute to a large-scale international IT engagement focused on modern data platforms, security, business applications, and IT operations.

You will be an integral part of the Data track, collaborating with Data Architects, BI Engineers, and Business Analysts while closely working with an onsite delivery lead. Your primary focus will be on optimizing and enhancing a modern data platform built on technologies such as Snowflake, ClickHouse, dbt, Fivetran, and AWS-native data services. Additionally, you will incorporate AI and agentic tooling where practical value is measurable, prototype new platform capabilities, and validate improvements with users before the development handoff.

Responsibilities

• Continuously assess platform performance and identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies for improvement.
• Embed AI and agentic tooling in platform environments to enhance speed, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Prototype new platform capabilities across ingestion, transformation, and query workflows.
• Validate prototypes directly with end users prior to transferring into the build process.
• Own technical feasibility assessments for emerging AI-driven and agentic optimization opportunities.
• Harden validated prototypes for delivery and integration into standard pipelines with Data Platform Engineers.
• Contribute reusable optimization patterns to the AI Solution Engineering practice.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience, including 2+ years in platform engineering or forward-deployed/solutions-engineering roles.
• Experience with AWS Data Services.
• Hands-on experience with Python.
• Experience with AI-assisted and agentic development tools.
• Platform performance analysis and optimization mindset.
• Hands-on experience with Anthropic Claude or AWS Bedrock.
• English proficiency at level B2.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with LangChain or other agent-orchestration frameworks.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Working knowledge of prompt engineering.
• Experience with Snowflake.
• Familiarity with ClickHouse, Fivetran, and dbt.

Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.