Lead Databricks Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS

About the role

The Deloitte AI & Engineering team transforms technology platforms, drives innovation, and makes a significant impact on clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior client-facing presence, building trusted advisor relationships as the senior engineering partner for client product, data, and platform leaders
• Navigate organizational complexity and influence to align executive sponsors, IT leadership, and business owners around a shared vision
• Represent Deloitte's FDE capability in client pursuits, executive briefings, and platform partner engagements
• Lead FDE pods of 2-5 onshore anchored and offshore supported engineers, owning execution, resource management, escalations and overall delivery health
• Enforce delivery standards across the pod: sprint cadences, stakeholder communication plans, risk management, and quality gates
• Cross-functional pod leadership and program governance
• Lead executive-level discovery, define success metrics (quality, latency, cost, adoption, risk) and a phased plan from prototype to production and scaling
• Architect and oversee delivery of LLM-enabled applications including copilots, agentic workflows, assistants, and knowledge search experiences using one or more enterprise AI platforms
• Set direction for prompt engineering, tool-use patterns, and human-in-the-loop controls
• Define evaluation frameworks covering quality, hallucination risk, safety, latency, cost, and governance; ensure the pod meets agreed engineering quality bars to these standards
• Engage in cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure GenAI solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science or Engineering
• Minimum Secret level security clearance
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering
• 6+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments
• 6+ years of experience with Databricks including hands-on experience with one of the following key platform technologies; Databricks features including Lakeflow Connect, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Model Serving, Genie, and Databricks Apps
• 6+ years of experience leading project workstreams/engagements and translating business problems into AI solutions
• 5+ years of experience building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code and CI/CD DevOps in Databricks
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud) and common platform services (storage, compute, IAM, networking)
• Demonstrated ability to work directly alongside client technical teams and program stakeholders in fast-paced, ambiguous delivery environments
• Experience with MLOps/LLMOps practices: evaluation frameworks, model monitoring, and prompt management
• Experience integrating LLM solutions with enterprise systems via APIs, microservices, or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance considerations

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others