The Solutions Architect at Databricks plays a crucial role in promoting the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. This customer-facing position involves collaborating with sales, customers, and internal teams to identify use cases and develop solutions. The role requires expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, and analytics, with a focus on building relationships and providing technical leadership. The Solutions Architect will also engage in community outreach to promote open-source projects.

• 8+ 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
• Familiarity with Data Engineering technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, or Kafka
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing concepts including SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS
• US Citizen

• 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 and implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects
• Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
• Promote Databricks inspired open-source projects across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Travel to customers in your region