# Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Berlin, Germany, Munich, Germany
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, CI/CD, MLOps, Machine Learning, Ai Apis, Data Pipelines, Databricks, Distributed Computing
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Leads customer-facing delivery of production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform, owning architecture, implementation, and stakeholder engagement. Requires 6+ years of engineering experience, strong cloud and Spark expertise, and proficiency in modern programming and ML/AI delivery.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and productionize customer solutions for data and AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
- Own architecture and lead design decisions for secure, scalable, end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.
- Deliver production-grade systems, reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion pipelines, and ML/AI model integrations.
- Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, development, deployment, evaluation, and adoption of big data and AI applications.
- Scope technical delivery work, manage project scope and timelines, and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Advise customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement projects and provide technical training.
- Collaborate with Databricks technical teams, project managers, architects, engineering, product, customer support, and customer stakeholders.
- Embed with customer teams and engage stakeholders from technical individual contributors through executives.
- Provide product and implementation feedback and help resolve engagement-specific issues.
- Contribute reusable accelerators, frameworks, documentation, and best practices.
- Travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Programming experience 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, or Google Cloud.
- 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, machine learning and 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 and translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Strong documentation and whiteboarding skills.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across broad stakeholder groups.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to learn technologies used to deploy and integrate Databricks-based solutions.
- Databricks certification.

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