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Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games

Databricks· Engineering
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Atlanta, Georgia$182k - $250.2kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer within Databricks Professional Services, focusing on data engineering, data science, and cloud integration projects for clients. Responsible for end-to-end design, implementation, and deployment of big data and AI applications, with customer-facing consulting and delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects including designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases
  • Collaborate with engagement managers to scope professional services work with input from the customer
  • Guide strategic customers through transformational big data projects and 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of big data and AI applications
  • Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects to drive adoption of Databricks
  • Provide escalated level of support for customer operational issues
  • Coordinate with Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure delivery meets customer needs
  • Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and guide rapid issue resolution

Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
  • 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
  • Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures
  • Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines
  • Documentation and white-boarding skills
  • Experience working with clients and managing conflicts
  • Build skills in technical areas which support deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions
  • Travel to customers 20% of the time
  • Databricks Certification

Skills

Required:Data engineeringPythonCloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)Apache SparkCI/CDMLOpsArchitecture designclient engagement / consulting
Nice to have:ScalaJavaScript/TypeScript

Benefits

  • Benefits information available via regional page (link provided in job description)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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