About this role
Job title: Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Financial Services
About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Databricks, you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to data and AI challenges using the Databricks platform. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This hands-on, customer-facing role blends technology with business impact and requires strong customer empathy and collaboration with engineering, product, and support teams.
What You'll Do
- Lead production-grade solutions by delivering production-grade systems, designing and building reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
- Transformational impact: Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, build and deployment of big data and AI applications; work with engagement managers to scope technical delivery with input from the customer.
- Empower Customers: Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
- Own the Architecture: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices; coordinate with engineering and customer teams to ensure delivery.
- Customer Immersion: Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact.
- Reusable Assets & Scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
- Comfortable writing code in Python, Scala, or Java.