Senior Government Data & AI Solutions Engineer

Neon; Colorado; On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks seeks a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate with federal, state, and local government clients, delivering production‑grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

You will own architecture, lead design choices, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This role is hands-on, customer-facing, and requires strong engineering skills, curiosity, and the ability to drive measurable business outcomes while working across

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Fluency in Python, Scala, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark and Spark internals.
• CI/CD for production deployments.
• MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• End-to-end data architectures combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and UIs.
• Technical project delivery, documentation and white-boarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade customer projects delivering reference architectures and data ingestion.
• Guide strategic customers in end-to-end design, build and deployment of big data & AI apps.
• Bootstrap or implement customer projects with strong architecture decisions.
• Own architecture ensuring security, scalability, and best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers and support to resolve product and engagement issues.
• Embed with customer teams and translate technical work to business impact.

Skills

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Modern frameworks

AWS

Azure

GCP

Apache Spark

MLOps

CI/CD

Data architectures

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Databricks seeks a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate with federal, state, and local government clients, delivering production‑grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

You will own architecture, lead design choices, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This role is hands-on, customer-facing, and requires strong engineering skills, curiosity, and the ability to drive measurable business outcomes while working across