Databricks
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Financial Services
$182K–$250K
Chicago, Illinois +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 22, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
Remote - California - Experience
- 6+ years in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
About the job
Build and productionize customer-facing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform, owning architecture and delivery from design through deployment.
What you'll do
- Lead customer projects to design, build, and deploy production-grade data and AI systems, including reference architectures, applications, ingestion, and model integration.
- Advise and embed with customer teams on architecture, implementation, adoption, and technical delivery.
- Coordinate with Databricks teams and customers to resolve delivery issues and contribute reusable assets and product feedback.
What they ask for
- Code in at least one of Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), with expertise in one or more.
- Deep experience with Apache Spark distributed computing and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Experience delivering technical projects and designing and deploying production data architectures and applications.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certification
Pay
$182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Apache Spark, CI/CD
AI focus
Integrate ML/AI models and AI APIs into production data architectures and applications; support customers' data and AI projects.
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