# SNOWFLAKE FRONTIER ENGINEERING MANAGER, MIGRATIONS

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Menlo Park, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $236K – $339.2K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.

We are seeking a Manager, Frontier Engineering (Migrations) to sit at the intersection of customer delivery and product engineering. This is a unique hybrid role: you will lead a team of forward-deployed engineers who work directly with customers and partners on complex migration projects while simultaneously driving the development of AI-powered migration tools and products.

**AS A MANAGER, MIGRATIONS YOU WILL:**

**Team Leadership & People Management**

- Manage and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, providing clear feedback, identifying strengths, and developing growth paths

- Recruit, hire, and onboard future team members, setting them up for success in both customer-facing delivery and engineering contributions

- Foster a culture of creativity, innovation, and practical decision-making across delivery and engineering workstreams

- Support engineers in their career development, growing both technical delivery leads and engineering leaders

**Customer Delivery & Project Execution**

- Provide strategic oversight for migration projects, ensuring alignment with customer objectives and company goals

- Lead teams executing complex migrations from legacy systems (Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, SQL Server, etc.) to the Snowflake platform

- Act as the primary escalation point for delivery concerns, working closely with customers and system integrators

- Maintain a hands-on presence on strategic projects, leveraging your technical expertise to assess quality and unblock teams

- Collaborate with sales teams to scope opportunities, develop proposals, and ensure effective account strategy execution

**Engineering & Product Build**

- Drive the design, development, and iteration of AI-powered migration tools and products based on real-world customer needs

- Guide the team through an evolving AI ecosystem to build AI-first products , including code translation, developer co-pilots, and semantic validation

- Translate field insights and customer requirements into engineering roadmap items and product improvements

- Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management organizations to align on priorities and deliver high-quality solutions

- Encourage the development and sharing of best practices, utilities, and accelerators that streamline migrations and feed back into product

**Cross-Functional Impact**

- Work with organizational leaders to influence GTM strategies, leading initiatives and improvements across Sales and Engineering

- Facilitate knowledge sharing and cross-team learning between field engineers and product engineering teams

- Present to both technical and executive audiences, articulating migration strategies, product vision, and business outcomes

**OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:**

- University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related fields (or equivalent experience)

- 7+ years of experience in technical roles involving customer-facing delivery, engineering

- 5+ years of people management experience , mentoring, coaching, and developing technical teams

- 3+ years of experience building and delivering enterprise software products, particularly involving AI/ML or developer tools

- Demonstrated success leading teams through complex data platform migrations and cloud transformation projects

- Strong foundation in databases, data warehouses, and data processing , hands-on experience with large-scale systems (Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, SQL Server, Greenplum, Hadoop)

- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the complete data analytics stack (ETL, data platform design, BI/analytics tools)

- Familiarity with data integration/transformation tools (Informatica, DataStage, Talend, Matillion, dbt) and BI tools (Tableau, MicroStrategy, Business Objects)

- Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL, SQL analytics, and scripting (Python, Perl, Bash)

## Skills

### Required
- AI/ML
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Data analytics stack (ETL, data platform design, BI/analytics tools)
- Databases, data warehouses, and data processing
- SQL, SQL analytics, and scripting (Python, Perl, Bash)
- Data integration/transformation tools (Informatica, DataStage, Talend, Matillion, dbt)
- BI tools (Tableau, MicroStrategy, Business Objects)

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