Senior Delivery Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business
Leads post-sale technical strategy, delivery, and adoption for complex Databricks customers, coordinating internal teams from onboarding through production and consumption. Requires 7+ years in Data and AI delivery, programming experience, distributed-systems architecture knowledge, and strong executive stakeholder management.
219k – 301k/yr
Remote7+ YOESolutions Architecture
About the role
Responsibilities
Collaborate with sales and field engineering teams to accelerate customer adoption and growth of the Databricks platform.
Lead post-technical-win account strategy and execution plans for strategic customers and their Databricks use cases.
Serve as the accountable technical leader across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live, and healthy workload consumption.
Act as the first contact for technical issues and production or go-live questions for agreed-upon use cases.
Coordinate Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding and Technical Services, Support, expert technical resources, and Professional Services.
Create and execute plans to accelerate use cases into production, including Professional Services engagement proposals.
Navigate Product and Engineering teams for product innovations, private previews, and upgrade needs.
Develop execution plans covering use-case production delivery, enablement and user growth, product adoption, cloud cost control, tuning and optimization, and executive and operational governance.
Provide internal and external KPI updates on usage, customer health, investment status, risks, product adoption, and use-case progression.
Requirements
7+ years of experience accountable for technical project or program delivery in Data and AI.
Programming experience with Python, SQL, or Scala.
Experience in customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, customer success, or consulting.
Understanding of solution architecture for distributed data systems.
Ability to attribute business value and outcomes to project deliverables.
Experience with technical program or project management, including account, stakeholder, and resource management.
Experience resolving complex escalations with senior customer executives.
Experience conducting discovery workshops, creating strategic roadmaps, performing business analysis, and managing complex programs or projects.
Track record of overachievement against quotas, goals, or similar targets.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
Ability to travel up to 30% when needed.
Compensation and Benefits
Local pay range: $219,100–$301,300 USD.
Total compensation may include an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.
Databricks offers comprehensive benefits and perks.
Skills
PythonSQLScalaSolutions Architecturedistributed data systemsTechnical Program ManagementProject Managementdata and aibusiness analysisstrategic roadmapsStakeholder Managementresource managementkpi reporting
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