Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect — Customer-Facing

FDE Times; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to lead production-grade data and AI solutions for customers on the Databricks platform.

You will own architecture, design decisions, and end-to-end delivery across data engineering, ML, and application development, embedding with client teams to ensure measurable outcomes. This role requires 6+ years in data engineering or software engineering, strong coding in Python/Scala/JavaScript, Spark expertise, cloud experience, and comfort with

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms or software engineering.
• Proficient in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript with modern frameworks.
• Deep Spark experience and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
• Experience with two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
• Knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• Ability to design and deploy scalable end-to-end data architectures.
• Experience delivering projects to enterprise clients and managing stakeholders.
• Databricks Certification.
• Willingness to travel ~20%.

Responsibilities

• Production Solution Delivery: lead production-grade projects and build reference architectures.
• Transformational Impact: guide customers through end-to-end design and deployment.
• Empower Customers: advise on architecture and ensure adoption of Databricks.
• Own the Architecture: ensure secure, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with Databricks teams to meet engagement needs.
• Provide product feedback and drive rapid issue resolution.
• Customer Immersion: embed with customer teams across stakeholders.
• Develop reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices.

Skills

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Apache Spark

CI/CD

MLOps

Data architectures

Documentation & whiteboarding

Databricks Certification

Enterprise customer delivery

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to lead production-grade data and AI solutions for customers on the Databricks platform.

You will own architecture, design decisions, and end-to-end delivery across data engineering, ML, and application development, embedding with client teams to ensure measurable outcomes. This role requires 6+ years in data engineering or software engineering, strong coding in Python/Scala/JavaScript, Spark expertise, cloud experience, and comfort with