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Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$139.7k - $247.3kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. In this customer-facing role, you will identify use cases, develop architectures and solutions, guide implementations, and collaborate with sales to establish yourself as a trusted advisor. Travel up to 30% (80%+ local to region).

Responsibilities

  • 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%, of which 80%+ local to your region)

Qualifications

  • 3+ 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

Skills

Required:Public cloud platformsDistributed data systems designProgramming languagesOpen-source/data lake technologies

Benefits

  • Benefits details available per region via provided link
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Databricks

Leading Data and AI Platform for Enterprises

Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.

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