Delivery Solutions Architect

About the role

As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA) at Databricks, you will play a crucial role in accelerating the adoption and growth of the Databricks platform among your customers. Your responsibilities include collaborating with sales and field engineering teams to drive customer success, ensuring that complex customers receive the guidance and support they need to maximize the value of the Databricks platform.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritized customers
• Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
• Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live, and healthy consumption of the workloads
• Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to production/go live status of agreed upon use cases within an account, often serving multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations
• Leverage Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services, and Support resources, along with escalating to expert-level technical experts to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise
• Create, own, and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product innovations, private previews, and upgrade needs
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the below work streams:
• Main use cases moving from 'win' to production
• Enablement / user growth plan
• Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Databricks' Lakehouse vision)
• Organic needs for current investment (e.g., cloud cost control, tuning & optimization)
• Executive and operational governance
• Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important risks, product adoption, and use case progression - to your Technical GM

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience where you have been accountable for technical project or program delivery within the domain of Data and AI
• Experience contributing to technical debate and design choices with customers
• Programming experience in Python, SQL, or Scala
• Understanding of solution architecture related distributed data systems
• Understanding of how to attribute business value and outcomes to specific project deliverables
• Technical program, or project management including account, stakeholder, and resource management accountability
• Experience resolving complex and important escalations with senior customer executives
• Experience conducting open-ended discovery workshops, creating strategic roadmaps, conducting business analysis, and managing delivery of complex programs/projects
• Track record of overachievement against quota, goals, or similar objective targets
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience

Qualifications

• Can travel up to 30% when needed

Skills

• Technical credibility to engage and communicate at all levels with an organization

Benefits

The benefits at Databricks include comprehensive offerings designed to meet the needs of all employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please refer to our benefits page.

Pay Range

The pay range for this role is $180,000—$247,500 USD. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors including job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range for this position.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. With over 10,000 organizations worldwide, including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500, relying on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, we unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Learn more about us on our social media platforms.

Compliance

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