# Forward Deployed Engineering Manager II, Data Cloud, Google Cloud

About the job Google Cloud’s Data Cloud team builds the data platform behind Google’s agentic AI offerings: BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog, integrated with Gemini Enterprise. As a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, you will lead a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team for Google Cloud’s Data Cloud. Your team will bridge the gap between frontier data solutions and production-grade reality for customers. They will take customers data and machine learning workloads from prototype to production on BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog. You are a technical leader first: credible with Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and data platform leaders, able to review your team’s designs and code, and a strong judge of engineering talent. It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility-a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete

- **Id**: 4270469
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-forward-deployed-engineering-manager-ii-data-cloud-google-cloud-2>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T14:42:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T17:39:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4209
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Operating Systems, Video & Photo Sharing

## Company

- **Id**: 82
- **Name**: Google
- **Domain**: google.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/google>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 131
- **Ghost share**: 0.038
- **Stale share**: 0.763
- **Repost share**: 0.038
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **Google Cloud Spanner** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Management years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T17:39:50Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker); Route: Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T21:42:30Z

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