Senior Solutions Engineer: Lead Data Solutions & Live Demos

Databricks Inc.; 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, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations. You are a builder who codes, architectures, and communicates to drive platform adoption.

You will build PoCs and live demos, manage frontline technical relationships with customer engineers and data teams, and collaborate with Account Executives to grow platform usage across data engineering, analytics, and ML workloads.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or hands-on consulting.
• Proficient in Python and SQL with ability to debug, optimize, and write production-quality code; live coding is part of the interview.
• Experience designing data solutions on at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Working knowledge of distributed data systems: Spark, Delta Lake, Hadoop, Kafka, or Flink.
• Experience leading technical customer conversations—discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews.
• Familiarity with data engineering, data science/ML, or SQL analytics.
• Strong presentation and demo skills; able to build and present a live solution.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads across data engineering, analytics, and ML.
• Build and deliver proofs-of-concept and live demos to drive technical wins.
• Own frontline technical relationships with customer engineers and data teams.
• Develop account-level technical strategies with the Account Executive to grow platform usage.
• Navigate competitive landscapes by articulating Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations.
• Contribute reusable technical assets to the broader SA community.

Skills

Python

SQL

data engineering

solutions architecture

pre-sales

consulting

presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer in London to independently lead technical engagements, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations. You are a builder who codes, architectures, and communicates to drive platform adoption.

You will build PoCs and live demos, manage frontline technical relationships with customer engineers and data teams, and collaborate with Account Executives to grow platform usage across data engineering, analytics, and ML workloads.