Senior Solutions Architect - Data & AI Platform

Databricks Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. is seeking a Solutions Architect to drive the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform in a customer-facing role.

You will work with customers, product, and post-sales teams to design architectures, identify use cases, and guide implementations that deliver measurable value. You will build relationships, develop champions, and become a trusted advisor while traveling to customer sites within your region.

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 cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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

Distributed data systems

Public Sector experience

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Data Warehousing (SQL OLTP/OLAP/DSS)

Customer-facing pre-sales/consulting

Education

Degree in Computer Science or quantitative field

Tools

Spark

Delta Lake

MLflow

Koalas

Job description

Databricks Inc. is seeking a Solutions Architect to drive the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform in a customer-facing role.

You will work with customers, product, and post-sales teams to design architectures, identify use cases, and guide implementations that deliver measurable value. You will build relationships, develop champions, and become a trusted advisor while traveling to customer sites within your region.