Forward Deployed Engineer - Emerging Enterprise & DNB

Responsibilities

• Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI model integrations.
• Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, development, deployment, and adoption of big data and AI applications.
• Scope technical delivery work with engagement managers and customer stakeholders.
• Guide customers on architecture and design, and bootstrap or implement customer projects.
• Own architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
• Collaborate with Databricks technical teams, project managers, architects, and customer teams to deliver engagement components.
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and resolve engagement-specific issues.
• Embed with customer teams and engage stakeholders from technical individual contributors through executives.
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the product roadmap.
• Travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
• Ability to write code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
• Working knowledge of at least two major cloud ecosystems, with expertise in one or more of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using 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.
• Experience designing and deploying performant, production-grade end-to-end data architectures and applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
• Experience delivering technical projects, including managing scope, timelines, and measurable outcomes and translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
• Documentation and whiteboarding skills.
• Experience working with Emerging Enterprise and Digital Native businesses and managing conflicts across broad stakeholder groups.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore technologies that support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions.
• Databricks Certification.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with details varying by region.