Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Data Cloud, Google Cloud

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, you will lead a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team for Google Cloud’s Data Cloud. You will bridge the gap between frontier data solutions and production-grade reality for customers. You will take customer data and machine learning workloads from prototype to production on BigQuery, managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog.

What you'll do

• Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team
• Partner with business and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts to key accounts
• Lead technical hiring for Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), evaluating data engineering expertise, systems engineering
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (e.g., Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool-calling, and foundation models, building agents)
• Collaborate with product and engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency

What you need

• 8–14 years in software engineering
• GCP
• SQL
• Python
• Kafka
• Spark
• BigQuery
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• ETL
• Machine learning
• Go-to-market