Sr. Solutions Engineer

WinsAbove; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks seeks a Sr. Solutions Engineer to partner with customers in designing scalable data architectures using Databricks technology and services.

You will engage with customers’ technical leads, architects, engineers, and operations teams to establish yourself as a trusted advisor and drive tangible outcomes across the sales lifecycle. You will work with Account Executives to develop strategies, present reference architectures and demos, and validate integrations with cloud services.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a customer‑facing pre‑sales, technical architecture, or consulting role.
• Experience translating a customer's business needs to technology solutions and establishing buy‑in.
• Fluent in SQL and database technology.
• Debug and development experience in Python, Scala, Java, or R.
• Travel to customers in your region up to 30% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Develop account strategies with Sales to grow platform usage.
• Establish Databricks Lakehouse as standard data architecture for customers.
• Build and present reference architectures and demo apps for prospects.
• Capture technical wins by consulting on big data architectures and pipelines.
• Promote Databricks open‑source projects across developer communities.

Skills

Customer-facing pre-sales

SQL

Python/Scala/Java/R

Travel 30%

Education

Quantitative degree

Job description

REQ ID FEQ327R527

As a Sr. Solutions Engineer at Databricks within the Field Engineering org you will partner with our customers to design scalable data architectures using Databricks technology and services. You have technical depth and business knowledge and can drive complex technology discussions which express the value of the Databricks platform throughout the sales lifecycle. In partnership with our Account Executives, you will engage with our customers' technical leads, including architects, engineers, and operations teams with the goal of establishing yourself as a trusted advisor to achieve tangible outcomes. You will work with teams across Databricks and our executive leadership to represent your customer's needs and build valuable customer engagements and report to the Field Engineering Manager.

Impact You Will Have

• You will work with Sales and other essential partners to develop account strategies for your assigned accounts to grow their usage of the platform.
• Establish the Databricks Lakehouse architecture as the standard data architecture for customers through excellent technical account planning.
• You will build and present reference architectures and demo applications for prospects to help them understand how Databricks can be used to achieve their goals to land new users and use cases.
• Capture the technical win by consulting on big data architectures, data engineering pipelines, and data science/machine learning projects; prove out the Databricks technology for strategic customer projects; and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a customer‑facing pre‑sales, technical architecture, or consulting role with expertise in at least one of the following technologies:
  • Big data engineering (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Data Warehousing & ETL (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
  • Data Science and Machine Learning (Ex: pandas, scikit‑learn, HPO)
  • Data Applications (Ex: Logs Analysis, Threat Detection, Real‑time Systems Monitoring, Risk Analysis and more)
• Experience translating a customer's business needs to technology solutions, including establishing buy‑in with essential customer stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• Experienced at designing, architecting, and presenting data systems for customers and managing the delivery of production solutions of those data architectures.
• Fluent in SQL and database technology.
• Debug and development experience in at least one of the following languages: Python, Scala, Java, or R.
• [Desired] Built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research).
• Travel to customers in your region up to 30% of the time.

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