FORWARD DEPLOYED DATA ENGINEER

Posted 2 Days Ago
San Diego, CA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Transportation
The Role
Owns customer-facing data engineering engagements from discovery through delivery. Leads workshops, presents to technical and executive stakeholders, translates business needs into data, analytics, and AI solutions, and builds applied AI prototypes. The role also manages scoping, estimates, risks, and cross-functional delivery with Sales, Product, and Engineering. Required expertise includes SQL, cloud data warehouses, Python, dbt, data governance, Git, CI/CD, and strong customer communication.
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
EROAD is a global fleet management technology company, delivering GPS tracking, video telematics, compliance automation and driver safety tools to fleet operators across New Zealand, Australia and North America, and we're growing our Data Platform team to put data engineering talent directly in front of our strategic North American customers. We're hiring a Forward Deployed Data Engineer to sit within that team and own the technical relationship with those customers day to day.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
This role blends hands-on data engineering with direct customer ownership, from first workshop through to delivered solution.
- Lead discovery workshops with customers to understand their business problems firsthand
- Present findings and solution approaches to both technical teams and executive stakeholders
- Translate business problems into scoped data, analytics and AI solutions
- Build and prototype applied AI use cases directly with customers
- Own engagements end to end, including scoping, estimates and risk management
- Work closely with Sales, Product and Engineering to shape and deliver customer solutions
WHAT YOU NEED
You'll bring solid data engineering depth alongside real comfort operating in front of customers.
- 5+ years of hands-on data engineering or analytics engineering experience
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience with a cloud data warehouse, Snowflake preferred, or equivalent hands-on depth on another modern cloud data warehouse
- Python or another relevant programming language
- Experience with dbt or an equivalent transformation framework
- Solid data quality and governance practices
- Git-based development and CI/CD experience
- Strong customer-facing communication skills, comfortable presenting to executive audiences
- Power BI dashboard-building experience is a plus
- Prior experience in professional services, solutions engineering or technical consulting is a plus
- Experience with Snowflake Secure Data Sharing or customer data integration is a plus
- Streaming or near-real-time data experience is a plus
- Background in transportation, telematics, logistics, compliance or cold-chain, or familiarity with North American fleet operations, is a plus
WHY JOIN
You'll get real ownership of strategic customer engagements at a company operating at genuine scale.
- Work directly with strategic North American customers, shaping their data and AI solutions from the ground up
- Join a high-growth, publicly listed technology company making a real difference for its customers
- Be part of a talented, collaborative and multicultural team
- Continuous learning support, including EAP offerings and AI tooling
- Competitive benefits package

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of hands-on data engineering or analytics engineering experience
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Experience with a cloud data warehouse; Snowflake preferred
  • Python or another relevant programming language
  • Experience with dbt or an equivalent transformation framework
  • Solid data quality and governance practices
  • Git-based development and CI/CD experience
  • Strong customer-facing communication skills and comfort presenting to executive audiences
  • Power BI dashboard-building experience
  • Prior experience in professional services, solutions engineering, or technical consulting
  • Experience with Snowflake Secure Data Sharing or customer data integration
  • Streaming or near-real-time data experience
  • Background in transportation, telematics, logistics, compliance, or cold-chain, or familiarity with North American fleet operations
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The Company
HQ: Albany
455 Employees
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

EROAD develops technology solutions (products and services) that manage vehicle fleets, support regulatory compliance, improve driver safety and reduce the costs associated with driving. EROAD believes that every community deserves safer roads and the people who use the roads should influence the design, management and funding of transport networks.

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