Senior FDE Architect: Data & AI Solutions Lead

databricks; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineering - Architect to work with customers in London, delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own architecture, drive design choices, and implement end-to-end systems across data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires engineering excellence, adaptability, and strong communication to deliver measurable business outcomes while travel to customers is

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Comfortable writing code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark internals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
• Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• Travel to customers 20% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade projects delivering reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
• Guide strategic customers in end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications.
• Bootstrap or implement customer projects to drive adoption of Databricks.
• Lead architecture and design decisions to ensure secure, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, PM, and customer teams to deliver engagements and gather feedback.

Skills

Data engineering

Programming in Python/Scala/JS/TS

Cloud ecosystems (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Apache Spark

CI/CD for production

MLOps / AI models

Enterprise client communication

Documentation & whiteboarding

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineering - Architect to work with customers in London, delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own architecture, drive design choices, and implement end-to-end systems across data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires engineering excellence, adaptability, and strong communication to deliver measurable business outcomes while travel to customers is