Senior Solutions Architect, Customer Lake CDP

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

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect for Customer Lake to engage clients across marketing and data stakeholders, delivering demos, POCs, and architectural guidance that drive adoption of the embedded CDP platform. You will build trusted advisor relationships with CMOs and data leaders, guiding complex projects from design to deployment.

In this role, you will collaborate with GTM teams, contribute to strategic roadmaps, and mentor field personnel while shaping solutions for data-driven

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a customer-facing, pre-sales, or consulting role influencing technical executives, driving high-level customer data and marketing strategy, and product adoption.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience implementing modern data estate, CDP, and Lakehouse architectures with a focus on data and AI applications.
• Experience with design and implementation of data and AI applications for marketing and customer engagement, including identity resolution, segmentation, personalization and next-best-action, and agentic AI workflows for audience building and campaign activation.
• Facilitate and influence Executive stakeholders while aligning technology strategy to business value and ROI
• Proficient in AI assisted programming, debugging, and problem-solving using SQL and Python.
• Experience collaborating with Global System Integrators (GSIs) and third-party consulting organizations to drive customer outcomes in marketing and customer data initiatives.
• Hands-on experience building solutions within major public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with an understanding of cloud-native data ingestion, activation, and governance.
• Deep experience in customer data and marketing analytics, with broad familiarity across data engineering, data warehousing, AI/ML for personalization, data governance, and streaming.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership guiding strategic customers on data/marketing implementations (design to deployment).
• Collaborate with GTM and account teams to drive Customer Lake adoption from initial build-out to full CDP augmentation or replacement.
• Act as expert Solutions Architect building credibility with CMOs, MarTech, data leaders to drive adoption.
• Enable clients at scale through workshops, POC execution, and developing collateral that demonstrates the value of an embedded CDP architecture.
• Influence product roadmap by translating field-derived insights into strategic recommendations for Product and Engineering teams.
• Handle the most complex technical challenges as tier-3 escalation point for the field in mission-critical data environments.
• Establish and refine the sales qualification and POC intake process for well-scoped engagements.
• Build relationships with internal and external partners to support broader goals and growth.
• Drive thought leadership through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Customer-facing roles

Data estate

CDP & Lakehouse

Executive stakeholder management

SQL & Python

GSIs collaboration

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Customer data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect for Customer Lake to engage clients across marketing and data stakeholders, delivering demos, POCs, and architectural guidance that drive adoption of the embedded CDP platform. You will build trusted advisor relationships with CMOs and data leaders, guiding complex projects from design to deployment.

In this role, you will collaborate with GTM teams, contribute to strategic roadmaps, and mentor field personnel while shaping solutions for data-driven