Forward Deployed Engineer: Data & AI for Emerging Enterprise

Databricks Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Emerging Enterprise & Digital Natives business in EMEA. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development, delivering production-grade solutions for customers.

Travel up to 20% and close collaboration with engineering, product, and customer teams. This hands-on, customer-facing role requires deep engineering expertise, curiosity, and strong

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade systems and reference architectures for customer projects.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines, ML/AI model integration and applications.
• Guide architecture and design decisions to ensure secure, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to deliver value.
• Travel to customer sites up to 20% of the time.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platforms

Software engineering

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud platforms

Apache Spark

CI/CD

MLOps

Architecture design

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Databricks Certification

Tools

Spark runtime internals

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Emerging Enterprise & Digital Natives business in EMEA. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development, delivering production-grade solutions for customers.

Travel up to 20% and close collaboration with engineering, product, and customer teams. This hands-on, customer-facing role requires deep engineering expertise, curiosity, and strong