Databricks
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Financial Services
$182K–$250K
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 22, 2026
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Remote - California - Experience
- 6+ years; fields listed as alternatives.
About the job
Builds and productionizes customer-facing data and AI solutions on Databricks, owning architecture and delivery from design through deployment.
What you'll do
- Lead customer projects to design and deliver production-grade data architectures, applications, ingestion pipelines, and ML/AI integrations.
- Guide customers on architecture, implementation, and adoption while coordinating technical delivery with internal and customer teams.
- Develop reusable accelerators and provide product and implementation feedback to Databricks teams.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Code proficiency in at least one of Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks; expertise in at least one cloud ecosystem and working knowledge of two or more among AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Deep Apache Spark distributed-computing experience and knowledge of Spark runtime internals; familiarity with CI/CD.
- Experience delivering technical projects and production data architectures or applications that combine pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certification
Pay
$182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary; Zone 1); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary; Zone 2); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary; Zone 3); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary; Zone 4)
Tools
Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Apache Spark, CI/CD
AI focus
Integrate ML/AI models and AI APIs into production customer solutions; support deployment of data and AI applications.
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