Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect

Cacheflow; Maryland; On-site; USD 180,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking Solution Architects to lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You will design architectures, guide customers through implementations, and collaborate with sales, post-sales, product teams, and developers to deliver tangible value.

The role requires expertise in data engineering, data science, and ML with hands-on experience in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Expect travel to customer sites and active collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role.
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems.
• Experience programming in Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R and debugging these languages.
• Experience supporting Public Sector clients.
• Experience building solutions with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Expertise in Data Engineering technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka).
• Expertise in Data Warehousing (SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS).
• Experience in Data Science and Machine Learning (pandas, scikit-learn, HPO).
• Top Secret Security Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks.
• Consult on big data architecture, implement proofs of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and ML projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications.
• Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers.
• Become an expert in Databricks open-source projects and promote them across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars.
• Travel to customers in your region.

Skills

Customer-facing pre-sales

Distributed data systems design

Cloud platforms

Programming: Python/Scala/Java/SQL/R

Education

Degree in quantitative discipline (CS/Applied Math/OR)

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

Databricks is seeking Solution Architects to lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You will design architectures, guide customers through implementations, and collaborate with sales, post-sales, product teams, and developers to deliver tangible value.

The role requires expertise in data engineering, data science, and ML with hands-on experience in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Expect travel to customer sites and active collaboration with cross-functional teams.