Manager, Delivery Solutions Architects - Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS)

Databricks Inc.; California; On-site; USD 197,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Delivery Solutions Architect Manager for the Healthcare & Life Sciences segment. You will lead a team delivering production-grade data and AI workloads in highly regulated environments, guiding clinicians, researchers, and operations through modern data platforms.

You will set strategy, coach teams, and work with Sales and field teams to drive adoption, governance, and scalable value across Lakehouse and GenAI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in customer-facing technical roles (architecture, field engineering, consulting) with 3+ years leading technical teams.
• Experience enabling production workloads in regulated industries (HLS, life sciences, or HIPAA/GxP environments).
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native Lakehouse architectures, data governance, secure ML operations, and enterprise migration patterns.
• Hands-on expertise in SQL, Python/Scala, distributed data systems, code reviews, and solution architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing HLS delivery team and foster a culture of accuracy, velocity, and architectural excellence.
• Accelerate production workloads in highly regulated environments with clinical analytics, real-world evidence, and AI/ML use cases.
• Ensure compliance-aware technical excellence with HIPAA/GxP controls, auditability, lineage, and secure ML ops.

Skills

Leadership

Regulated industries

Cloud-native Lakehouse

SQL

Python/Scala

ETL modernization

AWS/Azure/GCP

Executive presence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA) Manager supporting our Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) segment, you will lead a team of DSAs responsible for accelerating production‑grade Data and AI workloads across some of the most regulated, mission‑critical environments in the world. Your organization will be the technical engine behind how payers, providers, med‑tech, and biopharma customers modernize clinical intelligence, streamline R&D operations, and operationalize secure AI at scale on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

You will define strategy, set the execution rhythm, and coach a team capable of navigating long implementation cycles, strict compliance requirements, and multi‑stakeholder enterprise programs—all while ensuring customers achieve clear, measurable outcomes. You will report to the Director of Delivery Solutions Architecture for the HLS Business Unit.

Impact You Will Have:

Build and Lead a High‑Performing HLS Delivery Team

Hire, develop, and inspire DSAs who can navigate clinical, scientific, and operational workloads. Establish a performance culture grounded in accuracy, velocity, and architectural excellence.

Accelerate Production in Highly Regulated Environments

Guide your team to minimize onboarding friction, remove blockers, and bring critical HLS use cases—clinical analytics, real‑world evidence, supply‑chain intelligence, quality systems, AI/ML—into production quickly and safely.

Drive Compliance‑Aware Technical Excellence

Ensure your team maintains deep expertise in the Data Intelligence Platform alongside core HLS requirements such as PHI‑compliant architectures, HIPAA/GxP controls, auditability, lineage, and secure ML/AI operations.

Partner for Growth With Sales and Field Teams

Collaborate tightly with Sales, SAs, Support, Emerging Technologies, and Professional Services to drive adoption, increase MAU/WAU, enable mature operational patterns, and ensure customers realize tangible business value from Databricks.

Operationalize Rigor at Scale

Establish forecasting mechanisms, production readiness criteria, customer health indicators, and consumption execution frameworks that ensure predictable, multi‑account delivery across HLS programs.

Be the Executive‑Facing Technical Sponsor

Engage with IT, security, clinical, R&D, and data executives to shape modernization roadmaps, influence architectural direction, mitigate risk, and sponsor the strategic value of Lakehouse and GenAI across the HLS ecosystem.

Strengthen and Evolve the DSA Practice

Contribute to cross‑BU initiatives that enhance delivery quality, reproducibility, and reuse—including patterns, accelerators, reference architectures, and playbooks tailored for healthcare, biopharma, and payer/provider operations.

What We Look For

• 8+ years in customer‑facing technical roles (Architecture, Field Engineering, Consulting), with 3+ years leading or managing technical teams.

• Demonstrated success enabling production workloads in regulated industries , ideally with HLS, life sciences, or similar GxP/HIPAA‑bound environments.

• Deep knowledge of cloud‑native Lakehouse architectures , data governance, secure ML operations, and enterprise migration/modernization patterns.

• Hands‑on, executive‑credible expertise in SQL , Python/Scala , distributed data systems, code reviews, and solution architecture.

• Strong track record guiding customers through ETL modernization, analytics, real‑time/streaming , and AI/ML productionization.

• Experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP , including IAM, network security, compliance controls, and data perimeter models.

• Proven ability to manage escalations, forecast usage growth, operationalize delivery frameworks, and guide cross‑functional teams.

• Strong executive presence—trusted advisor to CIOs, CISOs, Chief Data Officers, Clinical/R&D executives , and enterprise technical leaders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Willingness to travel up to 30%.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base 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. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 1 Pay Range

$197,100—$270,975 USD

Zone 2 Pay Range

$197,100—$271,050 USD

Zone 3 Pay Range

$197,100—$271,050 USD

Zone 4 Pay Range

$197,100—$271,050 USD

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.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, 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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