Senior Platform Solutions Engineer

Databricks; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer in London (or surrounding areas) to independently lead technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations. You are a builder who can code, architect, and present—combining deep technical depth with customer-facing skills to drive Databricks adoption.

You will own frontline customer relationships and work with your Account Executive to develop technical strategies that expand platform usage.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a hands-on consulting role.
• Proficient in Python and SQL with ability to debug, optimise, and write production-quality code — live coding is a required interview stage.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing data solutions on at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Independently lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads spanning data engineering, analytics, and ML.
• Build and deliver proofs-of-concept and live demos on the Databricks Platform that drive technical wins.
• Own frontline technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads.
• Develop account-level technical strategies in partnership with your Account Executive to grow platform consumption.
• Navigate competitive landscapes by articulating Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations.
• Contribute reusable technical assets (notebooks, solution accelerators, reference architectures) to the broader SA community.

Skills

Python

SQL

Live coding

Data engineering

Solutions architecture

Pre-sales

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Hadoop

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer in London (or surrounding areas) to independently lead technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations. You are a builder who can code, architect, and present—combining deep technical depth with customer-facing skills to drive Databricks adoption.

You will own frontline customer relationships and work with your Account Executive to develop technical strategies that expand platform usage.