Senior Data Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales, Cloud Platform

Databricks Inc.; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. is seeking Solutions Architects to drive the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform with customers. You will design architectures, guide implementations, and help build scalable data pipelines, ML workflows, and reference architectures.

In this customer-facing role you will partner with sales and post-sales teams, travel to regional customers, and become a trusted advisor on cloud data platforms such as Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required due to contractual requirements supporting U.S. Public Sector customers.
• 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming and debugging in Python and SQL.
• Experience supporting Public Sector clients
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Desired degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

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 proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
• Build and present references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
• Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Travel to customers in your region

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Distributed data systems

Python

SQL

Public Sector experience

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Data Engineering (Spark/Hadoop/Kafka)

Data Warehousing (SQL/OLTP/OLAP)

Education

Degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

Databricks Inc. is seeking Solutions Architects to drive the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform with customers. You will design architectures, guide implementations, and help build scalable data pipelines, ML workflows, and reference architectures.

In this customer-facing role you will partner with sales and post-sales teams, travel to regional customers, and become a trusted advisor on cloud data platforms such as Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.