--- title: 'Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Matillion' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-forward-deployed-engineer-matillion-manchester-yfgr8cnjavty' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Matillion - **Company:** Matillion - **Location:** Manchester, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/matillion/a9b1cc3a-4509-4444-842e-2bec0276714d ## Job description Are you ready to shape the future of data? Matillion is the company behind Maia, the AI Data Automation platform. In the AI economy, demand for data is exploding. Manual data engineering can’t keep up. Maia fixes that by combining 15 years of data expertise with agentic AI to eliminate the manual work that slows data teams down. Organisations like Cisco, DocuSign, and Slack are already using it to deliver real business impact, faster. We started in Manchester and now we’re global - with teams across the UK, US and India. We are driven, curious, energetic people who move fast, think big and hold ourselves to a high standard. We’re here to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves. And we’re looking for people who want to be part of it. The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer is the senior operator we put on our most significant and complex Maia rollouts and expansions. Working primarily remotely with our distributed teams and on-site when it counts, they own these engagements end to end, architecting and building production-grade solutions, modifying Matillion’s own product code where the platform needs it, and holding the highest engineering bar under real delivery pressure. A true force multiplier, they work at every level and across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success: earning technical wins, acting as a hands-on escalation point to Customer Success, and driving adoption and expansion in their accounts. They ship quickly and to standard in a low-friction way, turn their work into reusable assets and product feedback, and mentor the FDEs coming up behind them. What you will be doing: - Owning end-to-end customer engagements by running discovery, architecting multi-cloud deployments, writing production-grade code, and guiding projects through to production cut-over. - Building complex data pipelines, models, and integrations across cloud data platforms to ensure customers achieve the core outcomes they adopted Maia for. - Modifying Matillion’s underlying codebase directly when native platform features are missing, adhering to strict engineering, security, and quality standards. - Delivering fast, pragmatic MVPs by diagnosing real underlying customer problems, questioning initial requirements, and shrinking scope to accelerate platform adoption. - Cultivating executive trust and serving as a cross-functional catalyst across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to resolve complex escalations at the first point of contact. - Enabling total customer self-sufficiency by training internal champions and creating clear handover documentation for Customer Success and Support teams upon project exit. - Securing technical wins during pre-sales cycles through technical discovery, proof-of-concept deliveries, objection handling, and joint strategy work with Account Executives. - Influencing product evolution by identifying repeating delivery patterns, submitting structured product feedback, and building reusable implementation frameworks that minimize future custom work. - Working agentic-first by integrating AI tools across the entire delivery lifecycle while setting clear quality validation standards for AI-generated outputs. - Elevating team performance by mentoring junior engineers, shaping hiring standards, refining delivery processes, and continuously updating expertise in emerging AI and cloud tech. What we are looking for: - 5+ years of experience in production-grade software development and data integration, featuring expert Python, SQL, and object-oriented skills (Java/Go) for designing reusable architectures and refactoring complex codebases. - Deep knowledge of distributed systems, data architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes, secure enterprise networking, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP). - Hands-on expertise in scalable data pipelines and cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or BigQuery, alongside familiarity with the broader Matillion product estate. - Disciplined use of AI tools across the delivery process with the ability to validate output, supported by optional experience in production LLMs, RAG, and AI agents. - Proven background in customer-facing technical delivery, spanning pre-sales technical discovery, hands-on implementation, and escalation management. - Excellent communication skills to connect with both C-suite executives and technical developers during complex debugging sessions. - Strong engineering judgment and systems thinking to make sound architectural trade-offs between speed, scalability, and maintainability under ambiguity. - Execution bias and high autonomy to deliver working production systems independently in high-pressure environments. - Deep customer empathy and rapport-building capabilities that establish long-term trust with technical teams and executive stakeholders. - Founder mentality and a multiplier mindset to take full ownership of outcomes while elevating the performance of surrounding team members. At Matillion, we are committed to providing compensation in line with market standards based on the role, job family, job level and country. This role's estimated annual salaried pay range for this position is £84,160 - £126,240. The final salary will be based on your relevant skills, experience and qualifications demonstrated in the hiring process. More about Matillion We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance, with benefits including: Company Equity 30 days holiday + bank holiday 5 days paid volunteering leave Private Health Insurance Life Insurance Pension Access to mental health support ## Your Safety Matillion recruiters will only contact you from @matillion.com email addresses. We occasionally work with trusted recruiting partners; they will always tell you they are working on our behalf. We will never ask for money, fees, or bank details at any point in the hiring process. If something feels off, trust that instinct. Don't click any links. Go straight to matillion.com/careers to verify open roles or reach us at talent@matillion.com. Want to know more? Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch. Cannot find anything suitable role right now? We still want to hear from you. Drop us a line at talent@matillion.com. Find out more about life on #TeamGreen here. Matillion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team. Matillion prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Matillion does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. ## About Matillion ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Matillion is the intelligent data integration platform that empowers data teams to build and manage pipelines faster for AI and analytics - at scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Unicorn; Series E funding at $1.5 billion valuation) - **Headquarters**: Manchester, England (dual headquarters in Denver, Colorado, USA; additional office in Hyderabad, India) - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Matthew Scullion and Ed Thompson ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data integration, cloud data warehousing, AI data automation - **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – data teams at large organizations (customers include Cisco, DocuSign, Slack, St. James Place, TUI) - **Mission/purpose**: Remove data friction, 100x productivity, and open up data integration to the entire business, with AI and for AI ## Products & Services - **Data Productivity Cloud**: Cloud-native platform for extracting, loading, and transforming data from a wide range of sources into cloud data warehouses (AWS, Snowflake, etc.) - **Maia**: The world’s first agentic AI for data teams – autonomously creates, manages, and evolves data products for humans and AI - **Change Data Capture (CDC) & Data Replication**: Real-time data ingestion and synchronization capabilities ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $1.5 billion (Series E funding round) - **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not publicly disclosed in provided sources; annual revenue not publicly available (private company) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed in provided sources (some typical enterprise backers implied by unicorn status) - **Growth Signals**: Product expansion with AI-native Maia; headcount of 573 employees (Built In, 2026); global presence with offices in UK, US, and India; trusted by thousands of enterprises including Fortune 500 names ## Competitive Advantages - First-mover in cloud-native data transformation with a decade of experience (pioneered cloud ETL) - Agentic AI platform (Maia) that redefines manual data work – an early mover in the AI data automation space - Strong enterprise trust and brand recognition with marquee customers - Integrated suite covering loading, transformation, CDC, and orchestration in one cloud-based platform ## Strategic Focus - Accelerate AI adoption in data teams by productizing Maia and embedding AI throughout the platform - Expand data replication and real-time integration capabilities (CDC) - Scale globally (dual HQ model) and continue hiring across engineering, sales, and operations - Maintain culture of “mission first, no ego” while growing headcount ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Driven, curious, low-ego environment focused on a bold mission. Six core values guide decisions and behavior. - **Work model**: Hybrid – flexible combination of remote and on-site work. Offices in Manchester (HQ), Denver, and Hyderabad. Employees expected to be on-site periodically. - **Perks & benefits**: - Equity options for all employees - Global healthcare (including life insurance), subsidized for dependents - Enhanced vacation leave plus 5 paid volunteering days per year - Sabbatical leave (8 weeks after 5 years) - Commitment to gender pay equity (UK Gender Pay Gap report published) - **Hiring process**: Transparent use of AI – AI assists with skill mapping, note-taking, and assessment frameworks, but all final hiring decisions are made by humans. AI fluency is valued and assessed for roles. ## Sources 1. [matillion.com](https://www.matillion.com/) 2. [matillion.com/about](https://www.matillion.com/about) 3. [matillion.com/careers](https://www.matillion.com/careers) 4. [jobs.lever.co/matillion](https://jobs.lever.co/matillion) 5. 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