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Sr. Solutions Architect

Databricks· Engineering
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Chicago, IL$219.1k - $301.3kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior solutions architect role at Databricks focused on customer engagement, technical leadership, and trusted advisory across data analytics architecture and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Includes coaching, workshops, and potential track-based development.

Responsibilities

  • Develop customer engagement strategies in partnership with Account Executive(s) in your designated territory.
  • Coach junior Solutions Architects and teams on use case prioritization and building technical champions.
  • Influence stakeholders at all levels through complex engagements with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications, ensuring they are excited by the Databricks vision and solution strategy.
  • Be a 'champion’ for both customers and colleagues, operating as an expert solution architect and trusted advisor for significant data analytics architecture, design, and adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  • Contribute to Databricks' technical community engagement by developing customer-facing collateral and leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
  • Opportunity to continue your development in one of four tracks - technical specialization, industry vertical thought leadership, strategic customer vision, and people management.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of customer-facing technical experience.
  • Know how to engage in complex customer interactions and sales lifecycle in a technical pre-sales capacity.
  • Ability to influence decision-makers and C-level executives by developing relationships and orchestrating teams to achieve long-term customer success.
  • Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, Java, Scala) and willingness to learn a base level of Spark.
  • Hands-on expertise with complex proofs-of-concept and public cloud platform(s).
  • Know how to provide technical solutions for specialized customer needs and navigate a competitive landscape.
  • Can travel up to 30% when needed.

Skills

Required:Customer engagementSolution architecturePre-sales / technical salesProgramming (Python/Java/Scala)

Benefits

  • For specific benefits by region, refer to the linked benefits document.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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