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Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (Defense Industrial Base)

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Hybrid (Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; Washington, D.C.)$219.1k - $301.3kPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Solutions Architect role focused on pre-sales technical leadership for Databricks in the Public Sector, with emphasis on Defense Industrial Base. The role involves designing architectures, guiding customers through implementation, and enabling adoption of the Databricks platform while engaging with sales, product, and post-sales teams. Requires US citizenship and regional travel.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
  • Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt 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 references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
  • Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
  • Travel to customers in your region

Qualifications

  • U.S. citizenship is required due to contractual requirements supporting U.S. Public Sector customers
  • 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
  • Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
  • Comfortable programming and debugging in Python and SQL
  • Experience supporting Public Sector clients
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
  • [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

Skills

Required:U.S. citizenshippre-sales / technical architecturedistributed data systemsPythonSQLPublic Sector experienceCloud platformsData engineering techData warehousing

Benefits

  • Benefit details available per region (link provided)
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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