Customer-Facing Data & AI Solutions Architect

Academic Key; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Amsterdam to lead production-grade delivery of data and AI solutions for customers. You will own the architecture, guide design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role emphasizes impact, adaptability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will work with customers to shape implementation plans, deliver reference architectures, and

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering or software engineering.
• Ability to design and implement end-to-end data architectures.
• Strong customer-facing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade delivery of customer projects, including reference architectures and data ingestion pipelines.
• Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, build and deployment of data/AI solutions.
• Collaborate with engagement managers to scope technical delivery work with customer input.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver measurable impact.
• Own architecture decisions ensuring security, scalability and alignment with Databricks best practices.

Skills

Distributed data systems

Python/Scala/JS

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Apache Spark

CI/CD for production

MLOps basics

Tools

Apache Spark

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Amsterdam to lead production-grade delivery of data and AI solutions for customers. You will own the architecture, guide design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role emphasizes impact, adaptability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will work with customers to shape implementation plans, deliver reference architectures, and