Customer Sales Engineer

Customer Success Engineer / Manchester (hybrid, Northwest based) | Up to £60,000 + benefits | Go-to-market teamAbout the companyFast-growing, investor-backed data and AI consultancy in central Manchester. The business designs, builds and manages enterprise-grade data platforms, productised on Snowflake, plus the AI use cases built on top.The opportunityThe company is adding a technical seat to its go-to-market team. Working alongside the customer success manager, you come in once the client's requirements are captured, then scope and build a tangible solution and product demo that shows the client what is possible. Think of it as a forward deployed engineer style role, without the requirement to be a full software developer.Today, building demos depends on the CTO's time, which is a bottleneck. Your job is to remove that: turn a client's needs into something real and demonstrable at pace, using modern AI and low-code tooling, and put it in front of the client while the opportunity is warm.What you'll be doingTaking captured client requirements and scoping what the solution could look likeBuilding tangible prototypes and product demos to support pre-sales, at speedIdentifying opportunities, risks and dependencies within a client's environmentPartnering with the customer success manager and the go-to-market team through the pre-sales cycleRemoving the reliance on senior engineering time to produce demosWhat we're looking forExperience in a customer-facing technical role: pre-sales, sales engineering, solutions consulting, implementation or customer success engineeringThe ability to scope a solution and build a working demo that communicates value to a stakeholderA prototyping mindset: you would rather show something working than write a specificationFamiliarity with the modern data and AI landscape (cloud data platforms, SaaS, AI tooling); Snowflake ecosystem experience is a bonus, not a requirementYou do not need to be a full-time developer; speed, curiosity and communication matter moreTechnical skillsEssentialConfident with SQL for querying, exploring and shaping dataWorking knowledge of at least one cloud data platform (for example Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks or Azure Synapse)A good understanding of the data lifecycle: ingestion, transformation (ETL or ELT), modelling and getting data into a usable stateAble to build and present a working demo or prototype at pace, including with modern low-code and AI toolingComfortable translating a technical solution into plain business value for a non-technical stakeholderDesirableHands-on with a BI or visualisation tool (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or Looker)Some Python for data manipulation and scriptingFamiliarity with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and connecting source systems such as CRM and ERP via APIsExposure to modern AI tooling (LLMs, copilots, Snowflake Cortex or similar)Snowflake ecosystem experienceNote : We are looking for breadth and speed, not deep data-engineering specialism. SQL and the ability to build a compelling demo matter more than any single tool on the desirable list.Why joinA newly created role with real influence over how Assured wins and deliversA small, senior go-to-market team with direct access to leadershipA fast-moving environment where demos ship in days, not monthsHybrid working from a central Manchester baseTPBN1_UKTJ