Senior Forward-Deployed Data & AI Architect

Databricks Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, owning the architecture and delivering end-to-end data, AI, and application solutions on the Databricks platform. You will lead design decisions, work across engineering, product and developer relations, and ensure customer success with scalable, secure deployments.

This hands-on, customer-facing role demands engineering excellence, adaptability, and a passion for solving complex problems that drive measurable

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering, data platforms or software engineering.
• Proficiency coding in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of two cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and Spark internals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments and MLOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade customer projects with reference architectures and data ingestion/ML/AI integration.
• Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, build and deployment.
• Own architecture decisions to ensure secure, scalable solutions for clients.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to deliver engagements.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver measurable impact.
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks and best practices to scale across accounts.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platforms

Software engineering

Python

Scala

JS/TS

Cloud skills

Apache Spark

MLOps

CI/CD

Architecture

Customer-facing

Job description

Databricks is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, owning the architecture and delivering end-to-end data, AI, and application solutions on the Databricks platform. You will lead design decisions, work across engineering, product and developer relations, and ensure customer success with scalable, secure deployments.

This hands-on, customer-facing role demands engineering excellence, adaptability, and a passion for solving complex problems that drive measurable