# Senior Solutions Architect

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Python, R, Java, Scala, Hadoop, Cassandra, Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, SQL, Distributed Systems, AWS, Azure, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Provides technical leadership for strategic customers, designing data and AI architectures, proofs of concept, and cloud integrations on the Databricks platform. The role requires 8+ years of relevant experience, strong consulting and customer-facing skills, coding ability, and expertise in big data technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Provide technical leadership alongside the sales team, helping customers understand how Databricks can solve their business problems.
- Develop account strategies and execute them to help customers and prospects achieve business outcomes.
- Advise customers on big data architectures and implement proofs of concept for strategic projects across data engineering, data science, machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows.
- Validate integrations with cloud services, internal tools, and third-party applications.
- Collaborate with Solutions Architects and support customers and users.
- Promote Databricks open-source projects, including Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow, and recruit contributors from the developer community.
- Work with product and engineering teams to advocate for customers and influence the product roadmap.
- Guide customers through competitive considerations, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions.
- Travel to customers in the region as needed.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or a similar pre-sales or consulting role.
- 8+ years of experience with big data technologies, including Apache Spark, artificial intelligence, data science, data engineering, Hadoop, and Cassandra.
- Strong consulting and customer-facing experience with external clients across varied industries.
- Coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark, or Scala.
- Experience building distributed data systems.
- Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

## Nice to Have

- Databricks Certification.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with region-specific details available from Databricks.

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