Sr. Solutions Architect - Lakebase Berlin, Germany; Munich, Germany

Databricks Inc.; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Databricks Inc. seeks a Solutions Architect (Lakebase) to drive adoption of the Lakebase product line across assigned accounts in Berlin.

You will partner with Account Executives to design and present demos, workshops, and collateral that illustrate how OLTP and Big Data, Lakehouse, and AI capabilities deliver measurable business value. The role emphasizes pre-sales, field collaboration, and cross-functional planning to influence product roadmap and ensure successful deployments in

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in OLTP with client-facing delivery.
• Ability to influence OLTP products and roadmap.
• Experience integrating OLTP with Big Data, Lakehouse, AI ecosystems.
• Proficient in SQL, Python, and cloud-based architectures.

Aufgaben

• Collaborate with GTM and account teams to design engagement strategies.
• Act as trusted Solutions Architect, building credibility with stakeholders.
• Develop demos, assets, and workshops to enable adoption.
• Translate field insights into strategic recommendations for Product/Engineering.
• Escalate complex challenges to ensure customer success.

Kenntnisse

SQL

Python

Public cloud experience

Big data / lakehouse knowledge

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Jobbeschreibung

The Solutions Architect (Lakebase) team executes on Databricks’ strategic Product Operating Model that provides enhanced focus on earlier stage, highly prioritised product lines in order to establish product market fit, and set the course for rapid revenue growth. They are part of a global go-to-market team mandate, though individually will cover a specific, local region. Clients may span across one or more business units and verticals. By working in partnership with direct account teams, they will jointly engage clients, foster the necessary relationships, position in-depth the specific product line, so as to provide compelling reasons for clients to adopt and grow the usage of the given product. They understand the appropriate approach, the guardrails, and the steps needed to successfully adopt the product line, as clients deliver on their business objectives.

The Solutions Architect (Lakebase) is paired with an Account Executive aligned to a given product line with specific targets accordingly. Together, they will devise and implement a strategy across their assigned set of accounts, develop presentations, demos and other assets and deliver them such that clients make an informed decision as they decide to adopt the product-line in a meaningful way.

The Lakebase product-line requires the following core technical competencies:

• 10+ years of transactional database (OLTP) expertise across engineering, product development, administration, and pre-sales, with a proven track record of designing and delivering client-facing solutions.
• Credibility in influencing OLTP products with the market insight needed to shape and prioritise roadmap capabilities.
• Experience architecting solutions that integrate transactional data systems within broader Big Data, Lakehouse, and AI ecosystems.
• Infrastructure, platform and administration expertise around disaster recovery, high availability, backup and recovery, scale-out methods, identity and security management, migrations (vendor-to-vendor, on-prem to cloud)

The impact you will have:

• Collaborate with GTM leadership and account teams to design and execute high-impact engagement strategies across your territory.
• As a trusted advisor, serve as an expert Solutions Architect and "champion," building technical credibility with stakeholders to drive product adoption and vision.
• Enable clients at scale through workshops and developing customer-facing collateral that helps increase technical knowledge and thought leadership.
• Influence product roadmap by translating field-derived, data-driven insights into strategic recommendations for Product and Engineering teams
• Handle the most complex technical challenges in this product line by acting as the tier-3 escalation point for the field, ensuring customer success in mission-critical environments.
• 6+ years in a customer-facing, pre-sales or consulting role influencing technical executives, driving high-level data strategy and product adoption.
• Proven ability to co-plan large territories with Account Executives and operate in a highly coordinated, cross-functional effort across GTM and R&D teams.
• Experience collaborating with Global System Integrators (GSIs) and third-party consulting organisations to drive customer outcomes.
• Proficient in programming, debugging, and problem-solving using SQL and Python.
• Hands-on experience building solutions within major public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Broad experience (in two or more) and understanding across the fields of data engineering, data warehousing, AI, ML, governance, transactional systems, app development, and streaming.
• Undergraduate degree (or higher) in a technical field such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering or similar.
• A track record of driving complex projects to completion in fast-paced, customer-facing environments.

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