Senior Solutions Architect (EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse Migrations)

Databricks Inc.; Milano; Hybrid; EUR 113,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is hiring a Senior Solutions Architect (EDW Migrations) in Milan, Italy. You will lead regional migration strategy, design scalable migration processes, and work with leadership, product and account teams to migrate EDW workloads to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

You will mentor regional SAs, develop technical guides, and act as tier-3 escalation for complex migrations across EMEA, influencing adoption and ensuring customer success in mission-critical environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of customer-facing experience in pre-sales, architect or consulting roles influencing technical executives.
• Legacy Data Warehouse & Modernization architecture understanding to migrate workloads to a modern platform.
• Mastery of migration scope and progression from EDW to the Data Intelligence Platform.
• Hands-on experience with Lakehouse architectures and Spark, Python and SQL.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience designing big data architectures in public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strategic enablement and community mentorship experience.
• Experience collaborating with Services and SI partners to standardize delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional migration strategy with GTM leadership and accounts to drive adoption of the Databricks platform.
• Architect and refine programmatic assets and technical guides for migrations.
• Develop assessment tooling and integrate with field engagements.
• Act as tier-3 escalation point for complex migrations across EMEA.
• Mentor and scale the regional Solutions Architects and Specialist SAs.
• Provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering.
• Publish whitepapers and deliver high-impact technical presentations.

Skills

EDW modernization

Data warehousing

ETL migrations

Apache Spark

Python

SQL

Public Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Communication

Mentorship

Job description

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Senior Solutions Architect (EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse Migrations)

Milan, Italy

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. Our customers leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to power their mission critical Data and AI applications to improve how their organisations leverage data and insights to make better decisions, faster. Customers rely on Databricks for the full range of data workloads, including data engineering, ETL, near real-time streaming, machine learning, SQL analytics, and advanced analytics.

The Solutions Architect (EDW Migrations) executes on Databricks’ strategic product lines to develop, establish and drive product adoption and product market fit to grow customer adoption across EMEA. By working with leadership, product and direct account teams, you will jointly engage customers, foster the necessary relationships and position in-depth approaches to migrating their EDW to the Databricks Intelligence Platform. You will develop the appropriate approach, the guardrails, and the steps needed for customers to successfully deliver on their business objectives.

The Solutions Architect (EDW Migrations) is paired with Product Specialists for Data & Governance. Together, you will devise and implement a strategy across key accounts, develop presentations, demos and other assets, and with account teams deliver them such that the field and customers make informed decisions on adoption strategy and its implementation.

The impact you will have

• Lead Regional Migration Strategy: Collaborate with EMEA GTM leadership and account teams to design and drive the technical GTM and adoption strategy for large-scale EDW migrations to the Databricks Intelligence Platform
• Develop Programmatic and Scalable Migration Processes: Architect and continuously refine programmatic assets and detailed technical guides that enable field teams and partners to execute migrations.
• Build and Integrate Assessment Tooling: Helpmaintain, enhance, and direct the development of automated assessment tools from customer engagements.
• Drive Tier-3 Technical Championship: Act as the ultimate technical escalation point for highly complex, strategic, or stalled migrations in must-win accounts across EMEA.
• Enable and Scale the Regional teams: Scale the presales migration practice by mentoring and coaching the EMEA community of Solutions Architects (SAs) and Specialist SAs (SSAs) to ensure scale.
• Bridge Field Insights and Product R&D: Serve as a primary technical feedback loop to Product Management and Engineering.
• Establish Industry Thought Leadership: Author whitepapers, publish technical blogs, and deliver high-impact presentations at public forums (such as the Data + AI Summit) to position the Databricks Intelligence Platform as the premier platform for enterprise database modernization.
• Handle the most complex technical challenges in this product line by acting as the tier-3 escalation point for the field, ensuring customer success in mission-critical environments.

Competencies & Responsibilities

• 8+ Years of Customer-Facing Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, architect, or consulting role influencing technical executives (CIOs, CISOs, DBAs, and Platform Leads) and driving high-level database modernization strategy.
• Legacy Data Warehouse & Modernization Architecture understanding of legacy EDW systems (any of Teradata, Netezza, Snowflake, Synapse, Redshift, and Exadata) and architectures required to successfully transition workloads to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
• Mastery of migration migrations scope & progression taking customers from EDW to the full capabilities of the Data Intelligence Platform.
• Demonstrated competence in the Lakehouse architecture including hands‑on experience with Apache Spark, Python and SQL
• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal
• Public Cloud Architecting: Hands‑on experience designing and implementing big data architectures within major public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strategic Enablement & Community Mentorship
• Experience collaborating with Professional Services and Global Systems Integrators to standardize migration delivery methodologies and ensure smooth handoffs.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits which can be accessed here .

Italy Pay Range €112.700 — €140.325 EUR

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , and Instagram .

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