Delivery Solutions Architect - High-Tech & Manufacturing

OpenTalent; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Delivery Solutions Architect to collaborate with sales and field engineering to accelerate adoption of the Databricks platform. This hybrid role blends technical leadership with commercial accountability, guiding complex customers from onboarding to go-live and ensuring sustainable consumption of workloads.

You will interact with executive stakeholders, orchestrate cross-functional teams, and drive plans across Databricks colleagues to maximize return on investment for

Responsibilities

• Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritized customers
• Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
• Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders
• Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to the production/go-live status of agreed-upon use cases within an account
• Coordinate with Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services, and Support resources to deliver aligned tasks
• Create and execute a point of view to accelerate key use cases into production with PS engagement when needed
• Navigate Product and Engineering teams for new product innovations and upgrade needs
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities across use cases

Job description

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At Databricks, we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data problems by utilizing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA), you will play an important role during this journey. You will collaborate with our sales and field engineering teams to accelerate the adoption and growth of the Databricks platform in your customers. You will also help ensure customer success by increasing focus and technical accountability for our most complex customers who need guidance to accelerate usage of Databricks workloads they have already selected, helping them maximize the value they get from our platform and their return on investment.

This is a hybrid technical and commercial role. It is commercial in the sense that you will drive growth in your assigned customers and use cases through leading your customers' stakeholders, building executive relationships, orchestrating other focused/specialized teams within Databricks, and creating and driving plans and strategies for Databricks colleagues to build upon. This is in parallel to being technical, with the expectation that you will become the post-sale technical lead across all Databricks products. This requires you to use your skills and technical credibility to engage and communicate effectively with an organization at all levels. You will report directly to a DSA Manager within the Field Engineering organization.

The impact you will have:

• Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritized customers
• Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
• Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live, and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume Databricks
• Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to the production/go-live status of agreed-upon use cases within an account, oftentimes services multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations
• Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services, and Support resources, along with escalating to expert-level technical experts, to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise
• Create, own, and execute a point of view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews, and upgrade needs
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of