Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences

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 customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems
• Design and build reference architectures, custom applications, and data ingestion
• Guide strategic customers through implementation of big data and AI applications
• Lead architecture and design decisions for secure and scalable solutions
• Work with technical teams, project managers, and architects to meet customer needs
• Provide product and implementation feedback to Engineering and Customer Support
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver impact
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices to scale impact

Required qualifications

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering
• Comfortable writing code in 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
• Travel to customers 20% of the time

Nice to have

• Databricks Certification

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.