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Senior Solutions Engineer

Databricks
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Londonfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Solutions Engineer who independently leads technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations. Builds, architectures, and presents using technical depth and customer-facing skills to drive Databricks adoption; manages frontline customer relationships and collaborates with Account Executive on technical strategy to grow platform usage.

Responsibilities

  • Independently lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads spanning data engineering, analytics, and machine learning
  • Build and deliver compelling proofs-of-concept and live demos on the Databricks Platform that drive technical wins
  • Own frontline technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads
  • Develop account-level technical strategies in partnership with your Account Executive to grow platform consumption
  • Navigate competitive landscapes by articulating Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations
  • Contribute reusable technical assets (notebooks, solution accelerators, reference architectures) to the broader SA community

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a hands-on consulting role
  • Proficient in Python and SQL with demonstrated ability to debug, optimize, and write production-quality code — live coding is a required interview stage
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing data solutions on at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Working knowledge of distributed data systems: Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, or equivalent (Hadoop, Kafka, Flink)
  • Experience leading technical customer conversations — discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews
  • Familiarity with one or more: data engineering (ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, streaming), data science/ML (model training, MLOps), or SQL analytics
  • Strong presentation and demo skills — you will build and present a live solution during the interview
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience)

Skills

Required:PythonSQLData engineeringCloud platforms

Benefits

  • Refer to regional benefits details linked in the job description
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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