Solutions Architect - Public Sector

Databricks; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and perks

Job summary

Databricks is looking for a Solutions Architect based in Mumbai to lead in shaping Data & AI projects with customers. You will collaborate with sales and product teams, providing technical expertise and developing architectures using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in data engineering and technical architectures. This hybrid role offers competitive benefits and the opportunity to work with some of the best data teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a data engineering, data science, or technical architecture role.
• Strong consulting and customer-facing experience.
• Familiarity with data architectures and cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of the Data & AI landscape with customers.
• Provide technical leadership to customers and sales teams.
• Implement proof of concepts for strategic projects.

Skills

Big Data technologies

Apache Spark

Python

Data Engineering

Data Science

Hadoop

Consulting experience

Cloud services

Job description

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As a Solutions Architect, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data‑driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise ecosystem. You'll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems.

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with our most strategic prospects and customers, work directly with product and engineering to drive the Databricks roadmap forward, and work with the broader customer‑facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions along the way.

This is a Hybrid role, based in Mumbai.

The Impact You Will Have

• You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
• You will work directly with the sales team to develop your book of business, define account strategies, and execute those strategies to help your customers and prospects solve their business problems with Databricks.
• Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows, as well as validating integrations with cloud services, home‑grown tools, and other third‑party applications.
• Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users.
• Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks‑inspired open‑source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.

What We Look For

• 8+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre‑sales/consulting role
• 8+ years of experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™ AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others
• Strong consulting/customer‑facing experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
• Coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark™ or Scala
• Experience building distributed data systems
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Available to travel to customers in your region
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide, including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50 % of the Fortune 500, rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio‑economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

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