Data & AI Solutions Architect — Platform Strategy Lead

Databricks Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect in Greater London to lead the technical strategy for customers, drive platform adoption, and act as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and architects.

You will combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to position Databricks as the foundation of customers’ data and AI strategy, developing a technical specialisation and coordinating cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in solutions architecture or senior technical roles.
• Proven live coding in Python and SQL.
• Deep expertise in scalable data pipelines and lakehouse patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical strategy for accounts from discovery to production deployment.
• Lead complex architecture discussions across data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics.
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to customer architects and engineers.
• Drive technical wins with custom-built Databricks solutions.
• Develop an emerging technical specialisation as a go-to resource.
• Orchestrate cross-functional resources to deliver complex solutions.
• Influence product direction with customer requirements and gaps.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Python

SQL

Distributed data systems

Cloud deployments

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Databricks Platform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect in Greater London to lead the technical strategy for customers, drive platform adoption, and act as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and architects.

You will combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to position Databricks as the foundation of customers’ data and AI strategy, developing a technical specialisation and coordinating cross-functional teams.