Forward Deployed Engineering - Senior Architect
DataBricks · London, England ·
Overview
In this role you will lead production-grade data and AI solutions for customers on the Databricks platform. You own architecture, guide design decisions, and deliver end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application layers. You work closely with cross-functional teams to enable customer adoption and drive measurable outcomes. The role is hands-on and customer-facing, emphasizing empathy, rapid problem solving, and scalable accelerators to impact multiple accounts.
Responsibilities
- Lead production solution delivery and build reference architectures, data ingestion pipelines, and ML/AI model integration
- Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications
- Own architecture decisions ensuring security, scalability, and alignment with Databricks best practices
- Collaborate with engineering, project management, architect, and customer teams to deliver engagements
- Provide product and implementation feedback to enable rapid issue resolution
- Embed with customer teams to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact
- Develop reusable accelerators and frameworks to scale impact across accounts and inform product roadmap
Key requirements
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering
- Proficiency in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks
- Experience with two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and 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
- Knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs
- Design and deployment of end-to-end data architectures and applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user interfaces
- Experience with technical project delivery and stakeholder management
- Documentation and white-boarding skills
- Enterprise client exposure and conflict management across stakeholders
- Willingness to travel to customers (20%)
- Databricks Certification
- customer empathy
- adaptability
- curiosity
- Python
- Scala
- JavaScript/TypeScript
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