Solutions Architect - Benelux Fungible
Databricks· Engineering
Hybrid (Amsterdam)contractPosted 1mo ago
About the role
Fungible Solutions Architect focusing on time-boxed, strategic engagements in Benelux and Nordics to accelerate critical customer workloads from evaluation to production, coordinating architecture discussions and transitioning momentum to core teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy on time-boxed engagements (typically 1–5 months) to accelerate critical customer workloads from evaluation to production-grade wins.
- Own the architecture conversation, drive platform adoption, and act as a trusted advisor to customer architects and engineering leaders.
- Design scalable, production-grade solutions across data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics; lead whiteboarding, design reviews, and trade-off decisions with senior customer stakeholders.
- Win the technical decision by demonstrating Databricks differentiation through custom-built solutions in must-win scenarios.
- Move fast while maintaining quality by building momentum in ambiguous situations and compressing timelines without cutting corners.
- Package progress into a clean hand-off to core SAs, DSAs, specialists, or partners to sustain and expand wins.
- Scale by bringing back patterns, plays, and product feedback to make future engagements faster.
Qualifications
- Several years of experience (typically ~6+) in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role, or equivalent depth.
- Hands-on coding ability in Python and SQL, with ability to build, debug, and demonstrate working solutions live.
- Depth in distributed data systems and production cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), scalable pipelines, streaming, and lakehouse patterns; knowledge of infrastructure, security, and governance.
- Proficiency on the Databricks Platform, or ability to ramp quickly; strong spike in areas such as real-time/streaming, ML/AI, data governance, or migrations is valuable.
- Experience leading architecture discussions with senior technical stakeholders, design reviews, trade-off analysis, and translating architecture into business value for engineers and executives.
- Comfort with ambiguity, strong prioritization, and a genuine preference for variety and high-impact work.
Skills
Required:PythonSQLDistributed data systemsDatabricks PlatformArchitecture leadership
Benefits
- Benefits information available via regional link in job description.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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