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SNOWFLAKE FRONTIER ENGINEERING MANAGER, MIGRATIONS

Snowflake Inc.· Professional Services
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US-CA-Menlo Park$236k - $339.2kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Manager, Frontier Engineering (Migrations) at Snowflake leading a team of forward-deployed engineers focused on complex migrations while driving AI-powered migration tools and products.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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)
  • Resourceful, data-driven, strong partners, and able to step in as PM, program manager, or architect when needed
  • Hiring and growing the team, technical leadership (including for staff+ engineers), driving projects from idea to production, and partnering across teams and with customers
  • Strong experience scoping engagements — developing delivery estimates, proposals, and project plans
  • Outstanding presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people managementMigration project managementSQL and data technologies
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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