Forward Deployed Engineering Manager (FDE Manager)

At Globant, we are working to make the world a better place, one step at a time. We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager (Forward Deployed Engineering Manager) who shares our passion for innovation, technical excellence, and customer-focused delivery. This role is responsible for leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams embedded with strategic customers, driving the successful delivery of technical solutions while providing strong technical guidance, ensuring engineering quality, and supporting the growth and development of engineers.

The Role

The Forward Deployed Engineering Manager (FDE Manager) leads and scales a pod of elite

engineers embedded directly within our most strategic customers. In this role, you are

accountable for three things: the technical quality of the solutions your team builds, the

success of your customer engagements, and the career growth of your engineers.

You operate at the intersection of people leadership, technical strategy, and customer

excellence. You must understand the technical substance of our deployments well enough to

review architecture and unblock your team, while ensuring your engineers are kept at the right

altitude—focused on high-level technical challenges rather than getting bogged down in basic

project operations.

What You'll Do

• Lead Delivery & Customer Success
• Own the Outcomes: Drive technical delivery across one or more concurrent enterprise

customer engagements, ensuring that production systems meet customer expectations

and operational standards.

• Strategic Partnering: Act as the face of the engineering team to customer leadership

and internal Go-To-Market (GTM) stakeholders.

• Scope & Unblock: Translate highly ambiguous enterprise requirements into clear

technical plans. Anticipate delivery risks, resolve escalations, and protect your team's

bandwidth.

• People Leadership & Team Building
• Hire & Scale: Attract, interview, and onboard top-tier engineering talent capable of

thriving in high-intensity, customer-facing environments.

• Coach & Develop: Act as a dedicated mentor. Drive performance management, set clear

goals, and build career development plans across the FDE track.

• Resource Management: Match engineers to projects based on their skill sets, career

goals, and optimal staffing cadences, balancing team utilization with wellbeing.

• Technical Craft & Architecture
• Player-Coach: Provide technical oversight for customer programs. Review architectural

decisions, data pipelines, and code to ensure alignment with best practices.

• Raise the Bar: Define and enforce what "great" looks like for your pod. Ensure CI/CD

practices, evaluation frameworks, and readiness criteria are met for the systems your

team builds.

• Product Feedback Loop: Synthesize learnings, reusable patterns, and tooling from the

field, and feed them back to the core Product and Engineering teams to improve the

foundational platform.

What You Bring

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a

related field, with at least 3+ years of direct engineering management experience.

• Technical Depth: Strong background in systems architecture, data pipelines, AI/ML

deployments, or cloud infrastructure. Proficiency in languages like Python, TypeScript,

Java, or Go.

• Customer-Facing DNA: Proven experience managing teams in customer-embedded,

consulting-adjacent, or forward-deployed environments.

• Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts to

non-technical executive stakeholders, while retaining the credibility to debate

architecture with senior engineers.

• Agility: A track record of thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly scaling startup or

enterprise environments.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience deploying AI/ML models or Agentic AI applications in enterprise

production environments.

• Deep familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and enterprise data

platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Palantir Foundry).

Location: Dubai, UAE

Create with us digital products that people love. We will bring businesses and consumers together through AI technology and creativity, driving digital transformation to impact the world positively.

We may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process. Compensation is determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion and Globant’s Benefits.