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Senior Solutions Architect (EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse Migrations)

Databricks· Engineering
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Amsterdamfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Solutions Architect focused on EDW migrations to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, driving migration strategy, programmatic processes, and customer adoption across the EMEA region. Partners with Product Specialists, leads technical escalations, mentors regional SA/SSA teams, and contributes to thought leadership and product feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Regional Migration Strategy: Collaborate with EMEA GTM leadership and account teams to design and drive the technical GTM and adoption strategy for large-scale EDW migrations to the Databricks Intelligence Platform
  • Develop Programmatic and Scalable Migration Processes: Architect and continuously refine programmatic assets and detailed technical guides that enable field teams and partners to execute migrations
  • Build and Integrate Assessment Tooling: Help maintain, enhance, and direct the development of automated assessment tools from customer engagements
  • Drive Tier-3 Technical Championship: Act as the ultimate technical escalation point for highly complex, strategic, or stalled migrations in must-win accounts across EMEA
  • Enable and Scale the Regional teams: Scale the presales migration practice by mentoring and coaching the EMEA community of Solutions Architects (SAs) and Specialist SAs (SSAs) to ensure scale
  • Bridge Field Insights and Product R&D: Serve as a primary technical feedback loop to Product Management and Engineering
  • Establish Industry Thought Leadership: Author whitepapers, publish technical blogs, and deliver high-impact presentations at public forums (such as the Data + AI Summit) to position the Databricks Intelligence Platform as the premier platform for enterprise database modernization
  • Handle the most complex technical challenges in this product line by acting as the tier-3 escalation point for the field, ensuring customer success in mission-critical environments

Qualifications

  • 8+ Years of Customer-Facing Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, architect, or consulting role influencing technical executives (CIOs, CISOs, DBAs, and Platform Leads) and driving high-level database modernization strategy
  • Legacy Data Warehouse & Modernization Architecture understanding of legacy EDW systems (any of Teradata, Netezza, Snowflake, Synapse, Redshift, and Exadata) and architectures required to successfully transition workloads to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
  • Mastery of migration migrations scope & progression taking customers from EDW to the full capabilities of the Data Intelligence Platform
  • Demonstrated competence in the Lakehouse architecture including hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Python and SQL
  • Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal
  • Public Cloud Architecting: Hands-on experience designing and implementing big data architectures within major public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Strategic Enablement & Community Mentorship
  • Experience collaborating with Professional Services and Global Systems Integrators to standardize migration delivery methodologies and ensure smooth handoffs

Skills

Required:Customer-Facing ExperienceLegacy EDW ArchitectureLakehouse ArchitecturePublic Cloud Architecting

Benefits

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

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