Senior Data Platform Solutions Architect

Databricks Inc.; Minnesota; On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. is seeking Solutions Architects to drive growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.

You will work with customers, product teams, and post-sales to design architectures and guide implementations using our platform, building champions and trusted advisor relationships. You will lead technical discussions, develop proofs of concept, and promote Databricks open-source projects across communities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role.
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems.
• Comfortable programming in Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R.
• Experience supporting Public Sector clients.
• Built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Data Engineering technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka).
• Data Warehousing (SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS).
• US Citizen.

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 concept 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 (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) and promote them across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars.
• Travel to customers in your region.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Distributed data systems

Python/Scala/Java/SQL/R

Public Sector experience

Data engineering tech

Data warehousing

US Citizen

Customer-facing communication

Education

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

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

Databricks Inc. is seeking Solutions Architects to drive growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.

You will work with customers, product teams, and post-sales to design architectures and guide implementations using our platform, building champions and trusted advisor relationships. You will lead technical discussions, develop proofs of concept, and promote Databricks open-source projects across communities.