Solutions Architect, Retail
Pre-sales Solutions Architect partnering with Account Executives to define technical strategy for large Retail, Travel & Hospitality accounts. Leads data-driven transformation and ML/AI adoption of Databricks platform, building technical champions while providing mentorship.
About the job
Impact You Will Have
- Work with up to 9 clients as the main technical voice for Databricks
- Lead customers on a transformational journey, helping them evaluate and adopt Databricks as part of their strategy
- Implement the technical strategy in the account
- Build a movement of technical champions within the account
- Align technical strategies around Databricks solutions
- Provide structured mentorship for other team members
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working very large (> $1m ARR) accounts from the Retail and CPG related space
- 3+ years working in a pre-sales capacity or supporting sales activity
- Technical background in big data, data science and cloud
- Ability in data-driven business transformation, and driving change with data
- 3+ years of experience with design and implementation in big data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP or full lifecycle data science solutions
- Experience maintaining and extending production data systems to evolve with complex customer needs
- Production programming experience in Python, R, Scala or Java
Nice-to-Haves
- Databricks Certification
Skills
Big Data, Data Science, Cloud, Hadoop, NoSQL, Mpp, Oltp, Olap, Python, R, Scala, Java, Machine Learning, AI
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