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Forward Deployed Engineer - Emerging Enterprise & DNB

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (London, United Kingdom)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for the Emerging Enterprise & Digital Natives business in EMEA. You will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform, owning architecture, leading design decisions, and delivering end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role that emphasizes engineering impact, customer empathy, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Production Solution Delivery: 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
  • Transformational Impact: 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
  • Empower Customers: 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: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices.
  • Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs.
  • Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.
  • Customer Immersion: Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact.
  • Reusable Assets & Scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering
  • Comfortable writing code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks
  • Working knowledge of two or more 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
  • Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs
  • Design and deployment of performant production end-to-end data architectures and applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces
  • 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 Emerging Enterprise & Digital Natives businesses, 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
  • Databricks Certification

Skills

Required:Data engineering / data platforms & analyticsProgrammingCloud platformsApache SparkCI/CD

Benefits

  • Benefits information available via region-specific link (see job description)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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