Hightouch is looking for a Forward-Deployed Data Engineer to help their customers get the most out of their data, acting as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to customer data teams. The goal is to enable data and marketing teams to work seamlessly together, helping customers move faster, make better decisions, and turn data into real, measurable business impact.
Requirements
- Strong SQL skills and experience modeling data in cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Hands-on experience with dbt or similar transformation tools.
- Experience designing data models intended for self serviceability by less technical users
- Experience optimizing complex data pipelines to reduce complexity/cost/latency
- Ability to work directly with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Comfortable working across multiple customer environments and adapting quickly to new contexts.
- Strong analytical thinking and a track record of shipping impactful, scalable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Translate prospect and customer business goals into actionable data models and workflows.
- Partner directly with customer data teams to understand their goals and technical landscape.
- Design and implement data solutions that are both scalable and easy to use by marketing teams.
- Troubleshoot complex data issues and guide customers toward best practices.
- Collaborate with internal teams to surface product feedback and influence roadmap priorities.
- Contribute to internal tooling, playbooks, and knowledge sharing to uplevel the team.
- Support internal data engineering initiatives as needed, contributing to the stability of our own analytics infrastructure.
Other
- Prioritize tasks across multiple customers while maintaining high quality and responsiveness.
- Measure and communicate the business impact of your work with customers.
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working on an internal data team AND a customer facing role.
- Experience working with the Hightouch product.
