Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

Databricks; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work with Professional Services on customer engagements, delivering data engineering, data science and cloud projects that integrate with client systems and drive value from data.

The role is billable, involves travel, and reports to the Sr. Manager, Professional Services. You will influence architecture, design, and deployment of big data and AI solutions for strategic customers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with Big Data technologies in a customer-facing role.
• Proficient in Python or Scala.
• Experience delivering technical projects with defined scope and timelines.
• Strong documentation and whiteboarding skills.
• Willingness to travel 20-30%.
• Databricks Certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end customer engagements for big data projects on the Databricks platform.
• Architect, build and deploy reference architectures, MVPs and production-grade solutions.
• Provide escalated support for customer operational issues and ensure customer success.
• Collaborate with Databricks engineers, Project Managers, Architects and customer teams to deliver technical components.
• Collect feedback for product improvements and enable rapid issue resolution.

Skills

Big Data

Python/Scala

Job description

As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. FDEs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service. You will report to the Sr. Manager, Professional Services.

The impact you will have:

• You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include building reference architectures, how-to's and production grade MVPs / Greenfield projects
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
• Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement strategic customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks
• Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
• You will 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

What we look for:

• 8+ years experience with Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark™, Kafka, Cloud Native and Data Lakes in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architecture or consulting role.
• Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
• Documentation and white-boarding skills.
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
• Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
• Travel to customers 20 - 30% of the time
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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