Solutions Architect

WinsAbove; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect to help customers adopt the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You will translate complex data problems into architectures and guide implementations across cloud services, data engineering, analytics, and ML.

In this customer-facing role, you will lead reference architectures, contribute to open-source projects like Apache Spark and Delta Lake, and travel up to 30% to customer sites.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role.
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems.
• Comfortable programming in and debugging at least one of Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R.
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience in Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), Data Warehousing (SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS) or Data Science/ML (pandas, scikit-learn, HPO).
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from 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 reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers.
• Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues.
• Become an expert in, and evangelize Databricks driven open-source projects across developer communities.
• Use your strengths to help your fellow SA's, and drive cross-functional relationships across the company.
• Travel to customers up to 30%.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Distributed data systems

Programming (Python/Scala/Java/SQL/R)

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Data engineering tools (Spark/Hadoop/K

Data warehousing (SQL/OLTP/OLAP)

Data science & ML (pandas/scikit-learn

Databricks Certification (preferred)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Job description

At Databricks, our customers challenge us with solving some of the world's toughest data problems. Our customers rely on our Solutions Architect team to understand the technologies that power our platform, the broader cloud and technology ecosystems, and how they can all be brought together to solve these problems.

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a member of our team, you will sharpen your skills on open-source projects such as Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake to advocate the Lakehouse paradigm on public cloud providers. You will gain expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, data science, and machine learning. In this customer-facing role, you will identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through implementations to deliver strategic business value. You will partner with the sales team to build relationships with our customers and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.

Databricks' culture thrives on collaboration and teamwork, and you will contribute your knowledge to our teams by participating in our subject matter expert groups. In this role, you will report to the Solutions Architect Leader supporting the specific business segment.

If you are a technologist interested in Data and AI, and enjoy prototyping solutions for customers, this role is for you.

The impact you will have

• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from 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 reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers
• Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues
• Become an expert in, and evangelize Databricks driven open-source projects (Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Use your strengths to help your fellow SA's, and drive cross-functional relationships across the company
• Travel to customers up to 30%

What we look for

Solution Architects are customer-facing. You'll need to be comfortable communicating ideas to various audiences through presentations, whiteboarding, architecture discussions, and platform demonstrations.

• 4+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in and debugging at least one of Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience in at least one of the following:
  • Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
  • Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
• [Preferred] Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.)
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

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