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

Databricks

Atlanta, USremote country$182k-$250k/yrPosted Mar 12, 2026
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Skills

databricksjavascripttypescriptbootstrappythonazuresparkscalacicdgooglecloudaws

About the role

CSQ127R318

As a Big Data Solutions Architect (Resident Solutions Architect) in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. RSAs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service. You will report to the regional Manager/Lead.

The impact you will have:

You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases

Work with engagement managers to scope variety of professional services work with input from the customer

Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including 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 which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.

Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.

You will 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.

What we look for:

6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics

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

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 the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.

Travel to customers 20% of the time

Databricks Certification

Pay Range Transparency

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Zone 1 Pay Range

$182,000 - $250,208 USD

Zone 2 Pay Range

$182,000 - $250,208 USD

Zone 3 Pay Range

$182,000 - $250,208 USD

Zone 4 Pay Range

$182,000 - $250,208 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

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Compensation

This Solutions Engineer role pays $182k-$250k/yr. Within typical range for solutions engineer roles in United States.

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