About the Role

Engineering architect for enterprise CDP clients. You are the single technical owner for assigned clients — responsible for everything from solution design and data onboarding through platform configuration, integration architecture, go-live, and ongoing technical health. You identify and close product gaps by working directly with core engineering and contribute code to the platform.

What you'll do
Design solution architecture per client - data ingestion strategy, schema mapping, identity resolution approach, segmentation logic, campaign orchestration flow
Configure and customize the CDP for client-specific use cases
Identify product gaps, write engineering specs, work with core product team to ship fixes
Own the client end-to-end from a technical standpoint - data onboarding, platform configuration, integration architecture, go-live readiness, and ongoing technical health
Contribute as senior developer on core product and applications between client engagements
Recognize cross-client patterns and translate them into product features

Must have




8+ years hands-on software engineering
Java/JVM
can read, debug, refactor, and contribute to a production Spring Boot codebase
SQL + analytical databases -
complex queries, stored procedures, performance tuning on Snowflake or BigQuery
Data architecture -
can design end-to-end data flows: ingestion → transformation → identity resolution → segmentation → activation
Kafka -
understands producers, consumers, topic design, partitioning, consumer groups, offset management
MongoDB -
schema design, aggregation pipelines, indexing strategies, query optimization
API design -
RESTful services, integration patterns, webhook architectures
Data modeling -
star schema, EAV, slowly changing dimensions, multi-tenant schema patterns
Experience designing solutions across the stack - not just backend or just frontend, but the full path from raw client data to campaign execution
Can whiteboard

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer Bengaluru (India)
🏢 FirstHive | CDP+AI Data Platform
📍 India