# Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Financial Services

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, Atlanta, GA, New York City, NY, Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $181k – $248k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, CI/CD, MLOps
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Hands-on customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer delivering production data, AI, and application solutions on the Databricks platform for enterprise clients.

## Job Description

## Impact

- Production Solution Delivery: Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, designing and building reference architectures, custom applications and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration
- Transformational Impact: Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications. Work with engagement managers to scope technical delivery work with input from the customer
- Empower Customers: Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
- Own the Architecture: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs.
- Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.
- Customer Immersion: Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact.
- Reusable Assets & Scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.

## Requirements

- 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering
- Comfortable writing code in either Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks
- Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
- Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals
- Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
- Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs
- Design and deployment of performant production end-to-end data architectures and applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines and measurable outcomes, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Documentation and white-boarding skills.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range
- Build skills in technical areas, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
- Travel to customers 20% of the time
- Databricks Certification

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