Senior Data Solutions Architect – Pre-Sales & Travel

Databricks; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks seeks a seasoned Solutions Architect to lead high-impact engagements with customers in data analytics and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You will craft engagement strategies, coach teams, and influence stakeholders across cloud ecosystems to drive adoption.

You will act as a trusted advisor for complex architectures, deliver customer-ready collateral, and lead technical workshops, with opportunities to grow in specialization, thought leadership, or people management tracks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of customer-facing technical experience.
• Ability to influence decision-makers and executives.
• Experience with Python/Java/Scala and Spark.

Responsibilities

• Develop customer engagement strategies with Account Executives in your territory.
• Coach junior Solutions Architects and teams on use case prioritization.
• Influence stakeholders across the cloud ecosystem and 3rd party apps to align on Databricks vision.
• Act as expert solution architect and trusted advisor for data analytics architecture.
• Create customer-facing collateral and lead workshops, seminars, meet-ups.
• Grow in tracks including technical specialization, thought leadership, vision, or people management.

Skills

Customer-facing

Cloud experience

Coding in Python/Java/Scala

Spark familiarity

Stakeholder influence

Travel up to 30%

Tools

Public cloud platforms

Job description

Databricks seeks a seasoned Solutions Architect to lead high-impact engagements with customers in data analytics and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You will craft engagement strategies, coach teams, and influence stakeholders across cloud ecosystems to drive adoption.

You will act as a trusted advisor for complex architectures, deliver customer-ready collateral, and lead technical workshops, with opportunities to grow in specialization, thought leadership, or people management tracks.