Senior Data & AI Deployment Lead

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

Job summary

Databricks in the United States is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers on data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform, owning architecture and end-to-end delivery.

You will embed with customer teams, design scalable solutions, integrate with client systems, and deliver reference architectures while collaborating across engineering, product, and developer relations. This hands-on, customer-facing role requires strong engineering skills, adaptability, and a

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript with modern frameworks.
• Experience with two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
• Knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• Ability to design production end-to-end data architectures combining pipelines and AI.
• Experience delivering technical projects with scope, timelines and outcomes.
• Strong documentation and white-boarding skills.
• Experience with enterprise clients and stakeholder management.
• Willingness to travel 20%.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade projects delivering reference architectures and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
• Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, build and deployment of big data and AI applications.
• Bootstrap or implement customer projects to drive adoption of Databricks.
• Own architecture decisions ensuring secure, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, project managers, architects and customer teams to deliver engagements.
• Provide product and implementation feedback to engineering and support for rapid issue resolution.
• Embed with customer teams and stakeholders from ICs to executives to understand challenges.
• Create accelerators, frameworks, and best practices to scale impact.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud computing

Python/Scala/TS

Spark

CI/CD

MLOps

Architecture design

Client facing

Travel 20%

Databricks Certification

Tools

Databricks platform

Job description

Databricks in the United States is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers on data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform, owning architecture and end-to-end delivery.

You will embed with customer teams, design scalable solutions, integrate with client systems, and deliver reference architectures while collaborating across engineering, product, and developer relations. This hands-on, customer-facing role requires strong engineering skills, adaptability, and a