The Solutions Architect role at Databricks involves leading the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. This customer-facing position requires collaboration with the sales team to build relationships and establish trust with clients. The role focuses on leveraging open-source technologies and cloud platforms to solve complex data problems. Candidates will gain expertise in data engineering, analytics, and machine learning while providing technical leadership to customers.

• 4+ 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
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience in at least one of the following: Data Engineering technologies, Data Warehousing, or Data Science and Machine Learning technologies
• [Preferred] Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science or Applied Mathematics
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from Databricks
• Consult on big data architecture and implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects
• Build and present reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers
• Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues
• Become an expert in and evangelize Databricks driven open-source projects across developer communities
• Use strengths to help fellow Solutions Architects and drive cross-functional relationships across the company
• Travel to customers up to 30%