Hybrid Head of Forward Engineering

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About the role

  • Head of Forward Engineering managing customer technical lifecycle from deployment to solution delivery and expansion. Leading a team and partnering with Sales for successful enterprise deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and grow the Forward Engineering organization across all four practice areas
  • Own customer technical success metrics: deployment time-to-value, solution delivery quality, and expansion revenue generated by the FE team
  • Define and standardize delivery methodologies, customer engagement models, and technical documentation standards
  • Serve as the executive technical sponsor for the largest and most complex enterprise deployments
  • Partner with Sales on pre-sales technical strategy and proposal development for strategic accounts
  • Drive the AI solutions practice as a differentiating revenue channel
  • Maintain a feedback loop to Engineering on deployment challenges, integration gaps, and product feature requests
  • Manage Forward Engineering budget, utilization, staffing, and professional services economics

Requirements

  • 10+ years technical experience with 4+ years leading customer-facing engineering teams in enterprise software or data platforms
  • Deep understanding of enterprise data platform architecture including data lakehouses, cloud platforms, and integration patterns
  • Experience navigating enterprise IT organizations: security reviews, architecture boards, procurement, and change management
  • Familiarity with Apache ecosystem (Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Ranger) and Kubernetes-based deployments
  • Strong executive presence and ability to represent NX1 technically at the C-suite level in enterprise customer organizations
  • Experience with professional services or solutions delivery P&L management

Benefits

  • A collaborative team culture built on curiosity and respect
  • Challenging work where your contributions clearly matter
  • A leadership team that invests in learning and development
  • The opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI innovation

Job title

Head of Forward Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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