Forward Deployed Architect

🕒 July 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🏛️ Architect

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Climb

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2026

💼 Consulting

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Enterprise • SaaS

Climb is the Databricks-native Data & AI consultancy that builds production-grade enterprise AI by focusing on the data foundation, outcome-aligned fixed-scope engagements, and senior delivery teams. They offer Databricks Basecamps—guided, time-boxed projects that move AI or data modernization priorities from diagnostic to production in weeks—plus solutions, fixed-price projects, and dedicated teams. Climb emphasizes Databricks engineering, governance (Unity Catalog), migrations, AI/ML, next-gen analytics, and agent deployments, with reusable IP (Climb AI Runtime), senior Databricks-certified staff, and measurable KPIs for each engagement.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end system architecture on your engagement: platform architecture, data and AI design, integration patterns, observability, security, and operational readiness. • Take engagement objectives and turn it into a coherent target architecture and an implementation plan the engineering team can execute against. • Make the platform and pattern decisions, model selection, agent and pipeline architecture, data flow, security, and cost, and stand behind them. • Guide and review the engineering team's implementation, ensuring individual workstreams integrate into a coherent production system. • Stay hands-on: write code on the critical path and prove out the hard parts of the architecture yourself. • Partner with the Forward Deployed AI Lead to align architecture with business priorities, engagement scope, and delivery sequencing. • Deliver architecture documentation, implementation guidance, and production-ready systems that customers can confidently operate after handoff. • Contribute reference architectures, patterns, and accelerators back to the practice.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering or technical architecture experience, including production systems in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP). • Proven experience serving as the technical design authority for production systems delivered to customers. • Hands-on depth across one or more of: LLM application and agent development, production data engineering, or backend systems at scale. • Demonstrated ability to guide multiple engineers while maintaining architectural consistency across the system. • Still codes: comfortable working on the critical path and proving out the hard parts yourself. • Strong communicator: technically precise with engineers, clear and confident with VP- and C-level leadership. • High tolerance for ambiguity; can turn a loosely scoped problem into a build the team can execute.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary with performance-based bonuses • MacBook Pro and swag kit so you can do your best work • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance • Generous holidays, flexible PTO, and remote-first work environment • Professional development budget including Databricks and cloud certifications • Spot bonuses for relevant certifications • Conference attendance and thought leadership opportunities • Collaborative, low-ego culture with direct access to leadership • Opportunity to shape a growing practice from the ground floor