CareerPlan

Director of Engineering, Frontier Engineering

AU-SydneyFull-time2026-10-24 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead and scale a multi-country Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization that embeds with strategic customers to build on the AI Data Cloud and turn ideas into production outcomes.

Role type

Director of Engineering (Forward Deployed Engineering)

Builds

Production outcomes on Snowflake capabilities (Snowpark, Cortex AI, Snowflake Horizon) for strategic enterprise customers

Domain

Cloud data platforms, AI/ML, modern data and application development

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Software engineering leadership, building/scaling embedded engineering teams, executive customer presence, cross-country/time-zone management, senior talent acquisition, organizational transformation, cloud data platforms, AI/ML

Preferred skills

Snowflake platform familiarity, GenAI and agentic application patterns

Responsibilities

Set technical and operating vision for FDE teams, partner with customer executives to shape engineering engagements, attract and hire exceptional engineering talent, coach and develop managers and senior engineers, partner with Sales and Product to connect customer needs to product direction

Seniority

Director, executive presence & multi-country leadership