Solutions Architect - Communications, Media, Entertainment and Games
Hybrid (Colorado)$180k - $247.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Databricks Solutions Architect role focused on leading adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for customers in the CMEG segment. Involves architecting solutions, prototyping, cloud integration, and customer-facing delivery to drive business value, with travel up to 30%.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from 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 reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers
- Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues
- Become an expert in, and evangelize Databricks driven open-source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
- Use your strengths to help your fellow SA's, and drive cross-functional relationships across the company
- Travel to customers up to 30%
Qualifications
- 4+ 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
- Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience in at least one of the following:
- - Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- - Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
- - Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
- [Preferred] Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.)
- Nice to have: Databricks Certification
Skills
Required:Customer-facing communicationDistributed data systemsProgramming
Benefits
- For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here (Databricks benefits document)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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