Senior Data Solutions Engineer - Platform Demos & Strategy

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer in London to independently lead technical engagements, from discovery to solution design and live demos. You will own frontline relationships with customer engineers and data teams, and work with an Account Executive to grow platform usage.

You will build PoCs, showcase the Databricks Platform, and articulate differentiation through hands-on demonstrations while developing reusable assets for the SA community.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or hands-on consulting.
• Proficient in Python and SQL with production-quality code and live coding exposure.
• Hands-on data solutions design on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience leading technical customer conversations and architecture reviews.
• Familiarity with data engineering, ML, or SQL analytics domains.
• Databricks certification or experience with Unity Catalog is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads.
• Build and demo proofs-of-concept on the Databricks Platform.
• Own frontline customer relationships with engineers and data teams.
• Develop account-level technical strategies to expand platform usage.
• Create reusable technical assets for the broader SA community.

Skills

Python

SQL

Live coding

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Hadoop

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer in London to independently lead technical engagements, from discovery to solution design and live demos. You will own frontline relationships with customer engineers and data teams, and work with an Account Executive to grow platform usage.

You will build PoCs, showcase the Databricks Platform, and articulate differentiation through hands-on demonstrations while developing reusable assets for the SA community.