Senior Solutions Architect

About the role

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the field.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can solve business problems.
• Develop a book of business, define account strategies, and execute them to address customer challenges.
• Consult on Big Data architectures and implement proof‑of‑concepts for strategic projects spanning data engineering, data science, machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows.
• Validate integrations with cloud services, home‑grown tools, and third‑party applications.
• Collaborate with fellow Solutions Architects to support each other and our users.

Required profile

• 15+ years in data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or a similar pre‑sales/consulting role.
• 10+ years of experience with Big Data technologies such as Apache Spark™, AI, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.
• Strong consulting and customer‑facing experience across multiple industry markets.
• Hands‑on coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark™ or Scala.
• Experience building distributed data systems and solutions on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Willingness to travel to customers within the region.

Required skills

• Python
• R
• Java
• Scala
• Apache Spark
• Hadoop
• Cassandra
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• SQL