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FDEs deliver with customer empathy, integrating with client systems, training, and other technical needs to help customers get most value out of their data.\n\nThis is a hands‑on, customer‑facing role for builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact. The ideal candidate combines engineering expertise with adaptability, curiosity, and a passion for working with customers and teammates to solve complex problems that drive measurable outcomes. FDEs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with exceptional customer empathy.\n\nImpact of the Role\n\nProduction 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\n\nTransformational 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\n\nEmpower Customers: Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.\n\nOwn the Architecture: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices.\n\nWork 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.\n\nWork with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.\n\nCustomer Immersion: Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact.\n\nReusable Assets & Scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.\n\nQualifications and Experience\n\n6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering\n\nComfortable writing code in either Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks\n\nWorking knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one\n\nDeep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD for production deployments\n\nWorking knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs\n\nDesign and deployment of performant production end‑to‑end data architectures and applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user‑facing interfaces.\n\nExperience with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines and measurable outcomes, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.\n\nDocumentation and white‑boarding skills.\n\nExperience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range\n\nBuild 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.\n\nTravel to customers 20% of the time\n\nDatabricks Certification\n\nPay Range Transparency\nPay Range: $180,656 – $248,360 USD\n\nAbout Databricks\nDatabricks 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.\n\nBenefits\nAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please refer to our benefits page.\n\nCommitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nAt Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. 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