Senior Solutions Architect — Data & AI Platform, Customer Enablement

Databricks Inc.; Virginia; On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to drive adoption of the unified analytics platform for public sector and enterprise customers. You will design architectures, lead technical engagements, and guide customers through implementation to realize value.

You will collaborate with sales, product, and post-sales teams, build reference architectures, and promote open-source Databricks projects like Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Domestic travel will be required.

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 (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka).
• Data Warehousing (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 across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars.
• Travel to customers in your region.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

Databricks Inc. is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to drive adoption of the unified analytics platform for public sector and enterprise customers. You will design architectures, lead technical engagements, and guide customers through implementation to realize value.

You will collaborate with sales, product, and post-sales teams, build reference architectures, and promote open-source Databricks projects like Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Domestic travel will be required.