Telmai · 1 day ago
Forward-Deployed Customer Engineer (Enterprise)
Telmai is an AI-based data quality and observability platform designed for open architecture. The Forward-Deployed Customer Engineer will be responsible for accelerating the deployment and integration of Telmai for large enterprise customers, ensuring they derive value quickly from the platform.
Responsibilities
Guide customers through automated deployment in AWS, Azure, or GCP
Provide hands-on cloud/network/security support when needed
Integrate Telmai with customer ecosystems (GCS, S3, ADLS; BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks; Atlan, Alation, Collibra; Iceberg, Delta, Hudi)
Configure assets, profiling, rules, lineage, and validation flows
Build small utilities or synthetic datasets to speed onboarding
Enable automated validation across landing → transform → consumption layers
Diagnose issues such as schema drift, null spikes, volume anomalies, invalid values, or rule failures
Work with engineering, analytics, governance, and business teams to align on quality goals
Demonstrate improvements in data reliability and trust
Run workshops, stand-ups, and weekly sessions
Navigate enterprise org structures and unblock cross-team dependencies
Communicate clearly with both technical and executive stakeholders
Act as the primary technical owner for post-sales success
Bring deployment insights back into product and engineering
Inform roadmap areas (validation automation, lakehouse integrations, AI-agent workflows)
Help build playbooks and best practices for future implementations
Qualification
Required
4–6 years in a customer-facing engineering role (FDE, SA, CE, consulting engineer)
Strong data architecture and pipeline fundamentals
Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Experience with lakehouse/warehouse ecosystems
Familiarity with data lakes, cloud storage, catalogs, or metadata systems
Comfortable leading multi-stakeholder enterprise conversations
AI-first and highly adaptable
Customer-obsessed and outcome-driven
High ownership, bias for action, and low-ego collaboration
Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-moving startup environments
Preferred
Experience with DQ/observability or metadata platforms
Iceberg/Delta/Hudi familiarity
Python/SQL for quick utilities
Exposure to regulated industries (FSI, healthcare, insurance)
Company
Telmai
Data Reliability Agent for Open Data Lakes
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$5.62M2023-06-15Seed· $5.5M
2021-08-31Pre Seed· $0.12M
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