Resident Solutions Architect
Forward Deployed Engineer (Solutions Architect) delivering big data, Spark, and AI projects for Databricks customers in media/entertainment. Requires 6+ years data engineering experience, Python/Scala, deep Spark knowledge, multi-cloud expertise, and client-facing project delivery skills.
About the job
Impact
- Work on impactful customer technical projects: designing/building reference architectures, creating how-to's, productionalizing use cases.
- Scope professional services work with engagement managers and customer input.
- Guide strategic customers on transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications.
- Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement projects leading to successful Databricks adoption.
- Provide escalated support for customer operational issues.
- Collaborate with Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect, and Customer team to deliver technical components.
- Work with Engineering and Customer Support to provide product/implementation feedback and resolve issues.
Requirements
- 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics.
- Comfortable writing code in Python or Scala.
- Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
- Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
- Working knowledge of MLOps.
- Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures.
- Experience with technical project delivery, managing scope and timelines.
- Documentation and white-boarding skills.
- Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
- Build skills in technical areas supporting Databricks deployment and integration.
- Travel to customers 20% of the time.
- Databricks Certification (preferred).
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games vertical.
Skills
Python, Scala, AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, CI/CD, MLOps, Databricks
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