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Forward Deployed Engineer - Migration
gaiia
Remote, CAN
Full-time
Mid · 4+ years experience
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🎭 Role & Team
As a Forward Deployed Engineer - Migration (FDE) , you'll work closely with customers and internal teams to plan and execute data migrations onto the gaiia platform — from initial discovery through to validated data in production. You combine customer-facing solutioning with hands-on technical execution, owning the migration end-to-end.
💻 What You're Going to Do
Migration Discovery & Solutioning:
Conduct discovery sessions to understand customers' legacy environments — source systems, data models, and OSS/BSS layers.
Assess and design the migration approach, documenting scope, data mappings, constraints, and cutover strategy.
Help customers and internal stakeholders understand trade-offs and priorities — what's in scope, how far back to migrate history, and how data will be reconciled.
Technical Execution:
Explore unfamiliar source systems and extract data via SQL, APIs, manual exports, and backups.
Transform data into gaiia's standard format using declarative mapping files, then load, validate against target schemas, reconcile, and import.
Plan and run cutover: delta migrations, downtime considerations, and rollback — monitoring production data and resolving discrepancies after go-live.
Delivery Leadership:
Own the migration relationship end-to-end — discovery, solutioning, execution, and post-cutover stabilization.
Build repeatable processes and reusable assets — templates, mapping rules, playbooks — to make future migrations faster.
Act as a subject matter expert for internal teams needing context on customer data and migration considerations.
Partner with Product and Engineering to influence the migration tooling roadmap, and contribute engineering improvements yourself.
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