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Sr. Solutions Architect

Databricks
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Hybrid (Auckland)Posted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Solutions Architect role at Databricks in Auckland, NZ focused on delivering Data Intelligence Platform solutions, guiding customer engagements, coaching teams, and driving adoption across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

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

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Customer engagement strategyPlatform architecturePre-sales technical experienceCoding
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Databricks

Leading Data and AI Platform for Enterprises

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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