Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer(FDE) - Public Sector
Databricks · Austin, TX · 3 mo ago
Engineering$182k–$250k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government secret clearance due to federal contract requirements and client site access obligations. Candidates with an active Secret or higher clearance are strongly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities
- Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, designing and building reference architectures, custom applications and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
- Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications.
- Work with engagement managers to scope technical delivery work with input from the customer.
- Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
- Own the architecture, leading architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact.
- Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.
Requirements
- 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
- Comfortable writing code in either Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
- Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
- Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines and measurable outcomes, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Documentation and white-boarding skills.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range.
- Build skills in technical areas, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
- Travel to customers 20% of the time.
Qualifications
- Databricks Certification.
Skills
- Technical project delivery.
- Technical project management.
- Technical documentation.
- Technical white-boarding.
- Technical project planning.
- Technical project execution.
- Technical project closure.
- Technical project risk management.
- Technical project quality assurance.
- Technical project change management.
- Technical project cost management.
- Technical project schedule management.
- Technical project resource management.
- Technical project communication management.
- Technical project procurement management.
- Technical project human resources management.
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