Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Snowflake

About the role

Deloitte seeks forward-deployed engineers (FDE) who can help clients transform AI ambitions into impactful enterprise-scale solutions. This role combines product, engineering, problem-solving, and client impact, ideal for those who excel at the AI transformation frontier.

Responsibilities

• Embed with clients to understand business needs and develop high-value GenAI use cases.
• Partner with leaders, product owners, architects, and engineers to align priorities and deliver solutions.
• Lead working sessions to shape solutions and drive client outcomes.
• Prototype and deliver working AI solutions using industry expertise and emerging capabilities.
• Mentor newer team members and coach client teams and end users on platform capabilities and AI enablement.
• Drive end-to-end sales and delivery support by developing demos/POCs, contributing to proposals and orals, articulating business value, and documenting solutions for smooth client handoff and knowledge transfer.
• Strengthen team and organizational impact by mentoring other FDEs through design/code reviews and feedback, while contributing reusable components to intellectual capital.
• Build AI-enabled solutions, agentic platforms, and workflows across enterprise AI platforms.
• Apply architecture decisions that balance quality, safety, latency, cost, and model risk.
• Deliver production-quality code using strong practices in testing, CI/CD, logging, versioning, and documentation.
• Design extensible functionality, support sprint sizing, and align solutions with senior team members.
• Contribute reusable assets including code, prompt libraries, runbooks, and reference implementations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science, or Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments.
• 1+ years of experience with Snowflake, including hands-on experience with one of the following key platforms: Cortex AI, Cortex LLM Functions, Cortex Agents, Arctic Embed.
• 1+ years of experience leading project workstreams/engagements and translating business problems into AI solutions.
• 1+ years of experience building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Qualifications

• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud) and common platform services (storage, compute, IAM, networking).
• Demonstrated ability to work directly alongside client technical teams and program stakeholders in fast-paced, ambiguous delivery environments.
• Data engineering experience with Spark, Airflow/dbt, streaming, data modeling, or ML/data science background feature engineering, experimentation, or model evaluation.
• Experience with MLOps/LLMOps practices: evaluation frameworks, model monitoring, and prompt management.
• Experience integrating LLM solutions with enterprise systems via APIs, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance considerations.

Benefits

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $155,600-$306,800.

Schedule

Full-time, remote work is offered.

Pay

The pay range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $155,600-$306,800.