Solutions Architect - Core FSI

Databricks; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Solutions Architect to guide data engineering and data science teams, and act as a technical advisor to the sales force while advocating for customers to drive data-driven outcomes with the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with strategic prospects, work with product and engineering to advance the roadmap, and design architectures and solutions for complex deployments. This hybrid role is based in Mumbai.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, data science, architecture, or pre-sales/consulting.
• 8+ years with Big Data tech (Spark, AI, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.).
• Strong consulting / customer-facing experience.
• Coding in Python, R, Java, Spark or Scala.
• Experience building distributed data systems.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Willingness to travel to customers in your region.
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the sales team to provide technical leadership on customer problems.
• Develop account strategies with sales and execute them to solve business problems.
• Consult on Big Data architectures and proofs of concept across data engineering, data science and ML.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to support users and projects.
• Promote and contribute to Databricks open-source projects across the developer community.

Skills

Python

R

Java

Spark

Scala

Consulting

Data engineering

Data science

Job description

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As a Solutions Architect, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. You will be a technical advisorinternally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. You'll grow as a leader in your field, whilefinding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with our most strategic prospects and customers, work directly with product and engineering to drive the Databricks roadmap forward, and work with the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions along the way.

This is a Hybrid role, based in Mumbai.

The impact you will have:

• You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
• You will work directly with the sales team to develop your book of business, define account strategies, and execute those strategies to help your customers and prospects solve their business problems with Databricks.
• Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
• Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
• Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.

What we look for:

• 8+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
• 8+ years of experiencewithBig Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others
• Strong consulting / customer facingexperience , workingwith external clients across a variety of industry markets
• Coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark™ or Scala
• Experience building distributed data systems
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Available to travel to customers in your region
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

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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