Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business, Named Accounts
Designs data and AI architectures, proofs of concept, and integrations for strategic customers while partnering with sales and customer-facing teams. Requires 5+ years in data engineering, data science, architecture, or pre-sales consulting, plus Python, SQL, distributed systems, and public cloud experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can solve their business problems.
- Consult on big data architectures and implement proofs of concept for strategic projects spanning data engineering, data science, machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows.
- Validate integrations with cloud services, in-house tools, and third-party applications.
- Collaborate with fellow Solutions Architects to support customers and users.
- Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks-inspired open-source projects, including Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow, across the developer community.
- Travel to customers in the assigned region as needed.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or a similar pre-sales or consulting role.
- Experience building distributed data systems.
- Proficiency in programming with and debugging Python and SQL.
- Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Expertise in either data engineering technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka, or data science and machine learning technologies such as pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
Nice to Have
- Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Operations Research.
- Databricks Certification.
Compensation
- Local pay range: $180,000–$247,500 USD.
- Total compensation may also include an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.
Skills
Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Delta Lake, MLflow, Databricks
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