[Remote] Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Financial Services

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is a leading data and AI company that helps organizations unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. They are seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to work closely with customers, delivering production-grade systems and guiding strategic projects in data engineering and AI. The role involves leading architecture decisions, embedding with customer teams, and contributing to best practices that scale impact across accounts.

Responsibilities

• Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, designing and building reference architectures, custom applications and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
• Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks
• Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices
• Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues
• Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap

Skills

• 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 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
• 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
• Travel to customers 20% of the time
• Databricks Certification

Benefits

• Eligibility for annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees

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