Solutions Architect

As a Solutions Architect on the Mission Solutions team, you will lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You will work with customers, teammates, product teams, and post-sales teams to identify use cases, develop architectures, and guide implementations. You will build relationships, find champions, and become a trusted advisor, reporting to the Field Engineering Manager.

• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can 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 reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.
• Become an expert in and promote Databricks-inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars.
• Travel to customers in your region.

• 6+ 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.
• 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).
• US Citizen.

Local Pay Range: $180,000—$247,500 USD. Total compensation may include annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits. Databricks offers comprehensive benefits and perks; details vary by region.