Senior Public Sector Solutions Architect (Defense)

Databricks; United States; On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for US Public Sector customers. You will design architectures with Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow, guide customers through implementation, and build champions and trusted advisor relationships.

The role requires extensive experience in Python/SQL, cloud deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), and open-source engagement. Occasional travel to regional customers is expected.

Qualifications

• 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 (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka).
• Data Warehousing technologies (SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS).
• 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 (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars.
• Travel to customers in your region.

Skills

Python

SQL

Public Sector

Cloud experience

Distributed data systems

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for US Public Sector customers. You will design architectures with Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow, guide customers through implementation, and build champions and trusted advisor relationships.

The role requires extensive experience in Python/SQL, cloud deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), and open-source engagement. Occasional travel to regional customers is expected.