Senior Data & AI Architect - Production Solutions Leader

Databricks; Illinois; On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate with customers, lead end-to-end data/AI solutions on the Databricks platform, and ensure production-ready implementations.

You will own architecture, drive design decisions, and work across data engineering, AI, and app development with a strong customer-first mindset. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and building repeatable accelerators while ensuring security, scalability, and alignment

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design decisions for scalable production solutions.
• Deliver production-grade systems including reference architectures and data ingestion/ML model integration.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver impact.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and support to resolve issues rapidly.
• Travel to customers up to 20% of the time.

Skills

Data engineering / analytics

Python/Scala/JS/TS

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Apache Spark

CI/CD

MLOps

End-to-end data architectures

Technical project delivery

Documentation

Enterprise client experience

Travel 20%

Databricks Certification

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate with customers, lead end-to-end data/AI solutions on the Databricks platform, and ensure production-ready implementations.

You will own architecture, drive design decisions, and work across data engineering, AI, and app development with a strong customer-first mindset. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and building repeatable accelerators while ensuring security, scalability, and alignment