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Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise (Startups)

Databricks· Solutions Architecture
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Hybrid (United States)$139.7k - $247.3kFull-timePosted 9mo ago

About the role

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform by understanding technologies that power the platform and how they integrate with cloud ecosystems to solve customer data problems. This role is customer-facing, involves architectural design, proof-of-concepts, and guiding deployments to deliver strategic business value, with travel up to 30%.

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

  • 5+ 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:Communication and presentationDistributed data systems designProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Benefits details available via regional link (provided in job description)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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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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