Lead Solution Engineer

Databricks

CSQ327R45 As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. We work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations. FDEs deliver with customer empathy, integrating with client systems, training, and other technical needs to help customers get most value out of their data.    This 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.   The impact you will have: * Production 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 * Transformational 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 * Empower Customers: Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks. * Own the Architecture: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices. * 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. * Customer Immersion: Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact. * Reusable Assets & Scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.   What we look for: * Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering * 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, ML/AI models and AI APIs * Design and deployment of performant production end-to-end data architectures and applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces. * Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines and measurable outcomes, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions. * Documentation and white-boarding skills. * Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range * Build 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. * Travel to customers 20% of the time * Databricks Certification 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 At 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 click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At 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. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Engineering Lead for Fleet Management As the Engineering Lead for Fleet Management, you will ensure our merchants can deploy and scale their in-person payment infrastructure with zero friction. You own the technical strategy for our global supply chain, automating the entire lifecycle of a terminal: factory ordering, global distribution, replacement, decommissioning, and reporting. Intuitive and self-service tools are the key to empowering merchants to manage their own stores and terminal fleets independently. You will be driven to create a simple, seamless, and automated experience from a complex logistics operation. You will lead the development of the configuration of our terminals - handling everything from merchant settings and dynamic content to payment kernel and SoftPOS configurations. The integrity of our Android ecosystem also falls within scope, overseeing the secure signing and deployment of apps and certificates. What You'll Do As the Engineering Lead, reporting to the SVP of Payments and collaborating with peers globally, your focus will be: * Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams. * Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation. * Focused on quality, have a high attention to detail and automation. Being driven by data and wanting to know what’s happening on our merchant’s terminals is a must. * Build a best-in-class team; developing and hiring great people with the right skills to deliver. * Curious, approachable and desire to work in a highly collaborative manner - both internal and external. * Exceptional at prioritization, putting our merchant and business needs ahead of personal ambition. * Accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed. * Driven by simplicity, standards and reuse. Who You Are * 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years as a leader building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams within global companies, with a track record of delivering complex, scalable platforms * Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software development organisation (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers, and setting an exemplary engineering culture * Skilled in building large-scale, distributed systems, ideally with expertise in Java or similar programming languages, and a passion for software architecture, scalability, and maintainability * Experience with payments or the logistics industry would be helpful. Having worked with vendors and supply chains would also be beneficial. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills and you are capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise language, You are a great story teller, and are comfortable talking to tech & non-tech audiences, as well as merchants, vendors and internal stakeholders  * You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration * You like to keep things simple, love dealing with uncertainty and get things done.  * You’re curious about what our biggest merchants are facing and you’re empathetic to solving problems that help all merchants Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.   This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

Adyen

THIS IS ADYEN Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. TEAM LEAD - HARDWARE PARTNER ENGINEERING  Adyen is seeking a Partner Engineering Manager to build and lead our Hardware Partner Engineering function. This is a hands-on player-coach role: you'll manage a small team of Partner Engineers while personally owning the technical relationship with one of our key terminal OEM partners. You will be Adyen's primary day-to-day technical interface with our hardware OEM partners, driving OEM accountability on open issues, representing our product strategy, and building the tooling and processes this function needs as it scales. As Adyen evolves its hardware offerings to incorporate more customer needs (e.g. loyalty) and interactive experiences, the need for a dedicated and technically astute team managing this partner surface will only grow. This role is foundational to that effort: you'll be one of the first people to staff and shape this function, establishing how Adyen manages OEM technical relationships for years to come. The ideal candidate combines direct engineering or systems experience (ideally in embedded/hardware or device-adjacent environments) with proven people leadership, and brings a proactive, high-agency mindset to building a team and function from an early stage. WHAT YOU'LL DO: * Manage and coach a small team of Hardware Partner Engineers, each working with a specific OEM, while personally owning day-to-day technical coverage of one OEM relationship yourself. * Act as Adyen's primary technical point of contact for assigned OEM partner(s): debugging, reproducing, documenting, and driving issues to resolution, escalating internally when necessary. * Drive internal alignment across Product, Engineering, Hardware Integrity/Reliability, and Commercial teams on prioritization of OEM issues and requests, ensuring OEMs are focused on Adyen's highest-priority issues. * Partner with the Hardware Integrity and other cross-functional teams to deploy tooling, automation, and process improvements with OEM partners to scale quality efforts beyond manual ticket-chasing. * Partner with Commercial counterparts to drive proactive improvements to the Adyen payment experience on partner devices (e.g., performance, reliability), not just reactive bug-fixing. * Build the operating model for this still-early function: define team structure, ways of working, and escalation paths as Adyen adds OEM relationships and device coverage under the hardware independence strategy. * Establish and maintain senior-level relationships with OEM partners (e.g. Verifone, Castles), including regular business reviews and escalation management. * Use Adyen's planning processes to secure resources and align senior stakeholders on team direction as scope grows. WHO YOU ARE: * 5+ years of hands-on technical experience (software/systems engineering, embedded systems, or technical program management), ideally with exposure to hardware, embedded, or device-level environments. * Direct people management experience, or clear readiness to step into a first management role, with a track record of coaching and developing technical, partner-facing Partner Engineers. * Comfortable diagnosing technical issues at the systems/device level and engaging credibly with OEM engineering counterparts — you don't need to be the one writing embedded firmware, but you need to understand it well enough to hold partners accountable. * Proven experience driving operational improvement — turning a backlog of recurring issues into sustainable processes, tooling, or automation rather than one-off firefighting. * Strong cross-functional communicator, comfortable driving alignment across Product, Engineering, Reliability, and Commercial teams, and navigating ambiguity in a function that is still being defined. * Ability to build trusted relationships with external partner engineering teams, including counterparts based in Asia and EMEA. * High agency: you identify opportunities, form a point of view, get alignment, and move — without waiting for the function to be fully built out around you. * Based in or willing to work from Amsterdam; comfortable with some travel and with schedules that occasionally span partner teams in Asia and US time zones. OUR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMITMENTS  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! WHAT’S NEXT? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.