Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games

The role

You will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects including integrating with client systems and training.

What you will do

• Design and build reference architectures
• Create how-to's and productionalize customer use cases
• Scope professional services work with engagement managers
• Guide strategic customers through big data and AI application implementation
• Consult on architecture and design
• Bootstrap or implement customer projects
• Provide escalated support for customer operational issues
• Work with technical teams to ensure engagement delivery
• Provide product and implementation feedback to Engineering and Customer Support

Required qualifications

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
• Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala
• 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
• Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines
• Documentation and white-boarding skills
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts
• Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions
• Travel to customers 20% of the time

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.