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Sr. Delivery Solutions Architect

Databricks· Engineering
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ZürichFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior technical advisor role focused on designing, implementing, and scaling complex data and AI solutions for high-value Databricks customers. Partners with Sales, Solutions Architecture, and Field Engineering to accelerate adoption and outcomes, delivering architectures that balance performance, cost, security, governance, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical execution strategy across high-value, complex customer accounts spanning multiple use cases, business units, geographies, or product areas
  • Serve as a senior technical advisor to customer architects, technical leaders, and Director/VP-level stakeholders
  • Design and influence secure, governed, scalable architectures while balancing performance, cost, reliability, and long-term platform strategy
  • Orchestrate Databricks, customer, and implementation partner teams to align technical execution and accelerate strategic outcomes
  • Anticipate platform maturity and scaling needs and establish technical standards for security, governance, developer experience, and operational excellence
  • Drive adoption, consumption, and measurable business outcomes through technical strategy and execution
  • Lead complex technical escalations spanning multiple systems, teams, or workloads
  • Build reusable technical frameworks, solutions, and assets that scale across customers, teams, or regions
  • Mentor DSAs and contribute to technical enablement, specialization, and thought leadership

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in solutions architecture, technical consulting, professional services, data engineering, or a related senior technical role
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical strategy and architecture for high-value or highly complex customer environments
  • Experience navigating complex programs across multiple business units, product areas, geographies, or technical workstreams
  • Deep expertise in one or more Data and AI domains, with strong knowledge of distributed data systems and cloud architectures
  • Strong coding proficiency in Python, SQL, Scala, or similar languages
  • Experience designing secure, governed, scalable, and production-ready architectures across cloud and enterprise environments
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems using first-principles thinking, structured analysis, and technical experimentation
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior technical stakeholders and executive audiences and de-escalate complex customer situations
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to orchestrate teams without formal authority
  • Track record of driving customer adoption, consumption, and measurable business outcomes through technical leadership
  • Experience creating reusable technical frameworks, assets, or programs that extend impact beyond individual customer engagements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Technical strategyArchitecture designCross-functional leadershipSQL
Nice to have:PythonScala

Benefits

  • Benefits details available per region (link provided)
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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