Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on our Professional Services team, you will work with customers on short to medium-term engagements to solve their big data challenges using the Databricks platform.

You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects that require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers get the most value out of their data.

Responsibilities:

• Handle various impactful customer technical projects, including designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to guides, and productionalizing customer use cases.
• Work with engagement managers to scope professional services work with input from customers.
• Guide strategic customers in implementing transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, and end-to-end design, build, and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications.
• Consult on architecture and design, bootstrap or implement customer projects, and provide escalated support for customer operational issues.
• Collaborate with Databricks Technical, Project Manager, Architect, and Customer teams to deliver technical components of engagements.
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback.

Requirements:

• US Secret Clearance required.
• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, and analytics.
• Comfortable writing code in Python or Scala.
• Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments and working knowledge of MLOps.
• Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures.
• Experience with technical project delivery, managing scope and timelines, documentation, and whiteboarding skills.
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to travel up to 30% when needed.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.
• Eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.