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Mission
We are seeking a highly skilled Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Public Sector team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge big data solutions for government clients. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of projects, from problem definition to deployment and optimization. You will design and implement end-to-end solutions, rapidly develop prototypes, and provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
The impact you will have:
- You will guide our public sector customers through successful implementations of big data projects on the Databricks platform
- Gather customer requirements, design approaches, and collaborate with customers & SIs to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Conduct data integration, cleaning, and analysis
- Develop custom applications and features on top of Databricks
- Optimize and scale customer workflows and data pipelines
- Collaborate with product development teams to represent customer needs
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to strategic customers
- Architect production-level workloads, including performance testing and optimization
- Contribute to the Databricks community through tutorials, training, and conference presentations
What we look for:
- 6+ years of customer-facing technical experience
- Professional experience equivalent to an L4 Software Engineer
- Hands-on production experience with Apache Spark™
- Expertise in big data technologies, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and production programming (Python, R, Scala, or Java)
- Strong understanding of data management, cloud platforms, data science, machine learning, and architecture
- Ability to write production-grade code independently
- Experience in architecting and implementing big data solutions
- Excellent communication and customer relationship-building skills
- This role may require up to 50% travel.
Preferred Qualifications
- TS SCI FSP clearance preferrable
- Experience in public sector projects
- Databricks certifications
- Contributions to open-source projects