Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail
$182,000–$250,208 year
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemoteFull Time$182,000–$250,208 yearSenior LevelData ServicesLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLargeData Services
Job Summary
Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, designing reference architectures, and implementing end-to-end data engineering, AI, and application solutions. Embed with customer teams to guide strategic transformations, bootstrap projects, and ensure adoption of Databricks platforms while providing rapid resolution for product and support issues. Contribute reusable assets and best practices to scale impact and influence the product roadmap. Travel 20% of the time to engage stakeholders from technical ICs to executives.
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 SparkTM 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 that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces
- Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines and measurable outcomes, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions
- 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
- Databricks Certification
Desired Qualifications
- Build skills in technical areas, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects
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