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Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (SLED)

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (IL, MI, MN)$219.1k - $301.3kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior solutions architect role focusing on pre-sales technical leadership for Public Sector customers, designing distributed data architectures, guiding implementation of Databricks platform, and evangelizing open-source projects. Travel to customers in the region; reports to Field Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

  • 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, 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 references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
  • Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
  • Travel to customers in your region

Qualifications

  • 8+ 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
  • Experience supporting Public Sector clients
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Data Engineering technologies (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Data Warehousing (e.g. SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
  • [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
  • US Citizen

Skills

Required:Programing languagesDistributed data systems architecturePublic Sector experienceCloud providers

Benefits

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

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