Senior Principal Forward-Deployed AI Data Platform Engineer

Oracle; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 105,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle CSS seeks a Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to lead enterprise AI data platform transformations, combining hands-on engineering with executive advisory to modernize data estates and deliver production-ready analytics and GenAI solutions.

You will work with CIOs and chief architects to accelerate AI adoption, migrate multi-cloud and on-prem workloads, and define reusable delivery patterns that shape CSS best practices. Strong leadership and code expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years designing and delivering enterprise data platforms.
• Proven experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Principal Solution Architect, Consulting Engineer, or Professional Services technical leader.
• Expert knowledge of Oracle AI Data Platform or equivalent modern cloud data platforms. Extensive experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Python, SQL, Scala or Java.
• Deep expertise in SPARK architecture, configuration, optimization, tuning, distributed systems, and large-scale performance engineering.
• Demonstrated success migrating enterprise analytics platforms and refactoring Spark/ETL workloads from Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, and AWS.
• Strong understanding of DataOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security, governance, metadata, lineage, and observability
• Outstanding executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise AI Data Platform transformations.
• Design and implement scalable data consolidation, integration, transformation, governance, and AI-ready architectures.
• Lead migrations from Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, AWS and on-premises platforms to Oracle AI Data Platform, including workload assessment, code refactoring, SPARK optimization, and modernization
• Serve as the executive technical advisor throughout customer engagements. Architect Lakehouse, Medallion Architecture, streaming, and real-time analytics solutions using OCI services.
• Provide expert-level Apache Spark configuration, performance tuning, cluster sizing, partitioning, memory optimization, adaptive query execution, and troubleshooting.
• Build reusable migration accelerators, reference architectures, automation frameworks, and delivery methodologies.
• Drive AI/ML and Generative AI data preparation pipelines, feature engineering, vector-ready datasets, and governed data products.
• Partner with Oracle Product Management and Engineering to influence product roadmap through field experience.
• Mentor senior engineers globally and establish engineering excellence across CSS.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Cloud data platforms

Apache Spark

Python

SQL

Scala/Java

Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Azure

AWS

Python

SQL

Kafka

Job description

Oracle CSS seeks a Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to lead enterprise AI data platform transformations, combining hands-on engineering with executive advisory to modernize data estates and deliver production-ready analytics and GenAI solutions.

You will work with CIOs and chief architects to accelerate AI adoption, migrate multi-cloud and on-prem workloads, and define reusable delivery patterns that shape CSS best practices. Strong leadership and code expertise are essential.