Forward Deployed Engineering - Senior Architect

In this role you will lead production-grade data and AI solutions for customers on the Databricks platform. You own architecture, guide design decisions, and deliver end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application layers. You work closely with cross-functional teams to enable customer adoption and drive measurable outcomes. The role is hands-on and customer-facing, emphasizing empathy, rapid problem solving, and scalable accelerators to impact multiple accounts.

• Lead production solution delivery and build reference architectures, data ingestion pipelines, and ML/AI model integration
• Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications
• Own architecture decisions ensuring security, scalability, and alignment with Databricks best practices
• Collaborate with engineering, project management, architect, and customer teams to deliver engagements
• Provide product and implementation feedback to enable rapid issue resolution
• Embed with customer teams to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact
• Develop reusable accelerators and frameworks to scale impact across accounts and inform product roadmap

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks
• Experience with two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and expertise in at least one
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
• Knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs
• Design and deployment of end-to-end data architectures and applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user interfaces
• Experience with technical project delivery and stakeholder management
• Documentation and white-boarding skills
• Enterprise client exposure and conflict management across stakeholders
• Willingness to travel to customers (20%)
• Databricks Certification

• customer empathy
• adaptability
• curiosity
• Python
• Scala
• JavaScript/TypeScript