Solutions Architect

Overview

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. They have expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science, machine learning, and AI. This is a customer-facing role where you will work with customers, your teammates, the product team, and partners to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using the platform, and guide customers through the implementation.

Impact

• 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, execute proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other third-party applications
• Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demonstrate applications for customers
• Build and promote expertise in, and advocate for, open source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Travel to meet with customers in your territory

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales role, or consulting role - preferably working with big-data technologies to solve data engineering and big-data analytical challenges
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, SQL, Scala, Java, or R
• Experience working with global system integrators, consulting organizations, or financial services technology, or financial services data providers is a positive differentiator
• Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Experience with Data Warehousing technologies (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Undergraduate degree or higher in an engineering or mathematics discipline such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, etc.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to 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. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

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Compliance

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