Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Financial Services
Databricks3 months ago
Base Salary
$181k - $248k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead customer technical projects by designing and delivering production-grade systems, reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI model integrations.
- Guide strategic customers through the end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications.
- Advise customers on architecture and design and help bootstrap or implement projects for successful Databricks adoption.
- Own architecture and design decisions to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Coordinate with Databricks technical teams, project managers, architects, customer teams, engineering, and customer support to deliver engagement requirements and resolve issues.
- Embed with customer teams and engage stakeholders ranging from technical individual contributors to executives.
- Create reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale across accounts and inform the Databricks product roadmap.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Ability to code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems—AWS, Azure, or GCP—with expertise in at least one.
- Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs.
- Experience designing and deploying performant production data architectures and applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Experience delivering technical projects, including managing scope and timelines and translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across broad stakeholder groups.
- Strong documentation and white-boarding skills, curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore technologies supporting Databricks-based solutions.
- Databricks Certification is required or expected.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks, with region-specific details provided by Databricks.
- Travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Databricks
Databricks builds a cloud-based data and AI platform centered on the lakehouse architecture, combining data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. It sells subscriptions and cloud services to enterprises that need to unify data pipelines and develop large-scale AI and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves organizations across many industries.