Senior Tech Program Lead – Data & AI Solutions

Databricks Inc.; South Carolina; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, own solution architecture, and deliver end-to-end data and AI deployments on the Databricks platform. You will lead design decisions, build production-grade systems, and integrate data pipelines, ML models, and applications with client teams.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires strong engineering expertise, curiosity, and the ability to translate complex concepts into measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms or software engineering.
• Proficient in Python/Scala/JavaScript and modern frameworks.
• Experience with at least one cloud ecosystem (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Spark.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design of production-grade solutions for customers.
• Deliver end-to-end data pipelines, ML/AI model integration and applications.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to ensure value realization.
• Travel to customer sites up to 20% of the time.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Spark

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

MLOps

Architecture design

Databricks

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, own solution architecture, and deliver end-to-end data and AI deployments on the Databricks platform. You will lead design decisions, build production-grade systems, and integrate data pipelines, ML models, and applications with client teams.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires strong engineering expertise, curiosity, and the ability to translate complex concepts into measurable outcomes.