Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Warehousing (Digital Native Business)

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) – Data Engineering & Warehousing, you will guide strategic enterprise customers through cloud data engineering transformations. This customer-facing role supports Solutions Architects with hands-on production experience in large-scale data engineering and lakehouse architecture. Reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will serve as a deep domain expert. This position can be remote.

• Provide technical leadership for building, scaling, and optimizing big data and data warehousing workloads.
• Architect production-ready pipelines and demonstrate platform value through performance and load testing.
• Build expertise in data lake architecture, streaming, automated ingestion, and data observability.
• Support pre-sales engagements including POCs, workload sizing, and architecture designs.
• Enable adoption through workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations.

• 5+ years in a technical role with deep expertise in data and software engineering, including Apache Spark, Kafka, batch ingestion, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with data-driven use cases, predictive analytics, or customer analytics platforms.
• Experience migrating EDW workloads (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, Synapse, EMR) across OLAP/OLTP systems; advanced query tuning, governance, and MPP debugging.
• Telemetry, log ingestion, anomaly detection, and familiarity with SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel).
• Deep understanding of lakehouse architectures (Delta Lake, data modeling, BI integration) across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Production-level programming in SQL and at least one of Python, Scala, or Java.
• Preferred: pre-sales or post-sales technical consulting experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Ability to hit training and delivery milestones within 6 months.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.

Local Pay Range: $180,000—$247,500 USD. Actual compensation based on skills, experience, certifications, and location. Total package may include annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Databricks offers comprehensive benefits and perks. Total compensation may include annual performance bonus and equity.

Apply via the Databricks careers page for this position.