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

The role

You will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data and AI challenges using the Databricks platform. You will own architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

What you will do

• Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems
• Design and build reference architectures, custom applications and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects
• Work with engagement managers to scope technical delivery work
• Guide customers on architecture and design
• Lead architecture and design decisions
• Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices

Required qualifications

• 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
• Experience with technical project delivery
• Documentation and white-boarding skills
• Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range
• Build skills in technical areas
• 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.