Senior Solutions Architect - Platform Security & Cloud Infra

Databricks Inc.; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. in Paris invites a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA-SME) to guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks across diverse use cases. You’ll design production workloads, assist with complex technical sales, and mentor others as a subject matter expert.

You’ll collaborate with Solution Architects and report to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, strengthening skills through internal training and hands-on projects. Travel up to 30% may be required.

Qualifications

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience with external clients across industries.
• Experience as a Data Platform engineer designing and maintaining production-grade big data systems (Spark).
• Experience designing cloud infrastructure and services in AWS and Azure with security and networking best practices.
• Ability to design and extend scalable, secure cloud-based big data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to guide customers to successful implementations on big data projects.
• Architect production-level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing.
• Provide technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and security for the Lakehouse platform.
• Assist Solution Architects with advanced aspects of technical sales, PoCs, workload sizing.
• Improve community adoption through tutorials, training, hackathons, and conferences.
• Contribute to the Databricks Community as a technical SME.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Post-sales experience

Data platform engineer

Spark

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Azure

Cloud security

Networking

VPC/VNet design

IAM

Terraform

Automation

Databricks

Python

Scala

SQL

R

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Databricks Inc. in Paris invites a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA-SME) to guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks across diverse use cases. You’ll design production workloads, assist with complex technical sales, and mentor others as a subject matter expert.

You’ll collaborate with Solution Architects and report to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, strengthening skills through internal training and hands-on projects. Travel up to 30% may be required.