Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Databricks
Remote - IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Professional Services OperationsEngineeringDatabricksbuildingAzurePythondesignScalaSparkKafkaUnityCloudGenerative AIRAGAWSGCPAI
Key highlights
- 15+ years experience with Big Data Technologies required
- 6+ years experience designing Big Data Architectures independently
- 2+ years experience with AI implementations (RAG, MCP, Context engineering)
- Experience across GCP, AWS, and Azure cloud platforms
- Role is a Staff FDE within the Professional Services team
- Databricks serves 70% of the Fortune 500
Role overview
As a Staff FDE in our Professional Services team, you will partner with a diverse range of customers to tackle their big data challenges using the Databricks Platform. In this customer‑focused role, you will act as a trusted advisor, delivering tailored solutions in data engineering and data science across multiple cloud environments, ensuring successful outcomes for our clients.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on impactful customer big data projects, such as creating reference architectures, developing how-to guides, and building production-ready efficient, robust and scalable tools and technologies.
- Advise strategic customers on transformational big data initiatives, including third‑party migrations and the complete design, build, and deployment of cutting‑edge big data and AI applications.
- Provide expertise in architecture and design, and support key customer projects to ensure successful adoption and integration of Databricks solutions.
- Partner with Engineering and Customer Support teams to deliver feedback, resolve engagement‑specific issues, and drive continuous product improvements.
- Simultaneously manage and guide multiple diverse projects, ensuring adherence to well‑architected principles and quality standards, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, and building strong customer trust.
Requirements
- 15+ years experience with Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark™, Kafka, Cloud Native and Data Lakes in a customer‑facing post‑sales, technical architecture or consulting role
- 6+ years of experience working on Big Data Architectures independently
- 2+ years of experience working on AI based implementations including RAG, MCP, Context engineering etc.
- Strong experience working in the Databricks ecosystem
- Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.
- Experience working across Cloud Platforms (GCP / AWS / Azure)
- Documentation and white‑boarding skills.
- Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills that turn business problems in to reliable technical products
- Build skills in technical areas that support the deployment and integration of Databricks‑based solutions to complete customer projects.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills to collaborate with both technical and domain experts
- Highly customer‑obsessed, innovative and think beyond the current world and come up with innovative solutions that can last long in the GenAI world
Nice to have
- Strong product development mindset
- Strong AI focused problem solving skills yet secure and proven guardrails that can be leveraged by the customers across different sectors
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees (details available per region).
Additional details
- CSQ427R195
- About Databricks: Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.
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