Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect

Socket.dev; California (MO); On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,208; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is the data and AI company. This Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer role partners with customers to design, build, and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and drive end-to-end delivery across data engineering, AI, and application development to deliver tangible business value. You will collaborate with engineering, product and customer teams, mentor others, and develop reusable accelerators and reference

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms or software engineering.
• Proficient in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Deep knowledge of distributed computing with Apache Spark and Spark internals.
• Experience delivering production-grade data and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade data and AI solution delivery for customer projects.
• Own architecture decisions and ensure secure, scalable designs.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to drive outcomes.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver impact.
• Develop accelerators, frameworks, and best practices for scale.

Skills

Data engineering

Spark

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud AWS/Azure/GCP

CI/CD

MLOps

Architecture design

Customer-facing

Tools

Databricks platform

MLflow

Job description

Databricks is the data and AI company. This Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer role partners with customers to design, build, and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and drive end-to-end delivery across data engineering, AI, and application development to deliver tangible business value. You will collaborate with engineering, product and customer teams, mentor others, and develop reusable accelerators and reference