[Hiring] Solutions Architect @Databricks

Role Description

While candidates in the listed location(s) in Colorado are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. In this customer-facing role, you will:

• 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%.

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 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

Requirements

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%.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.
• Eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and other benefits.

Company Description

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide 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.