Senior Public Sector Solutions Architect — Data & ML

Cacheflow; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking Solutions Architects to lead adoption of the Unified Analytics Platform for public sector customers and partner with sales to architect data solutions end-to-end. You will guide customers through implementation, build champions, and serve as a trusted advisor across teams.

The role requires U.S. citizenship, deep experience in distributed data systems, and hands-on work with Python, SQL, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Travel to regional customers is expected.

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

U.S. citizenship

Pre-sales & technical architecture

Distributed data systems

Python

SQL

Public Sector experience

Cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP)

Data Engineering (Spark Hadoop Kafka)

Data Warehousing (SQL OLTP OLAP DSS)

Quantitative degree (CS/Applied Math/O

Education

Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

Job description

Databricks is seeking Solutions Architects to lead adoption of the Unified Analytics Platform for public sector customers and partner with sales to architect data solutions end-to-end. You will guide customers through implementation, build champions, and serve as a trusted advisor across teams.

The role requires U.S. citizenship, deep experience in distributed data systems, and hands-on work with Python, SQL, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Travel to regional customers is expected.