Solutions Architect - Benelux Fungible
Leads architecture and technical delivery for high-impact, time-boxed Databricks customer engagements, moving data, AI, and analytics workloads toward production. Requires roughly 6+ years of relevant technical experience, strong Python and SQL skills, cloud expertise, and senior stakeholder communication.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy for time-boxed, targeted customer engagements across Benelux and the Nordics, accelerating critical workloads from evaluation to production-grade technical wins.
- Design scalable, production-grade solutions across data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics.
- Lead whiteboarding sessions, design reviews, architecture discussions, and trade-off decisions with senior customer stakeholders.
- Demonstrate Databricks differentiation through custom-built solutions in competitive opportunities.
- Establish momentum in ambiguous situations and compress delivery timelines without compromising quality.
- Transition progress and solutions to core solutions architects, specialists, data scientists, and partners.
- Capture reusable patterns, engagement plays, and product feedback.
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales, or another senior hands-on technical role, or equivalent experience.
- Hands-on coding ability in Python and SQL, including building, debugging, and demonstrating working solutions.
- Experience with distributed data systems and production cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of scalable data pipelines, streaming, lakehouse patterns, infrastructure, security, and governance.
- Proficiency with the Databricks Platform or the ability to rapidly learn new technologies.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, design reviews, trade-off analysis, and recommendations with senior technical stakeholders.
- Ability to translate complex architecture into business value for engineers and executives.
- Comfort with ambiguity, time-boxed engagements, prioritization, variety, and high-impact work.
Nice to Have
- Databricks certifications in data engineering, machine learning, or platform technologies.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, AWS native services, and Azure Synapse.
- Experience in a data/AI company or cloud provider.
- Industry expertise in financial services, healthcare, retail, media, or another vertical.
Compensation and Benefits
- Initial 12-month fixed-term contract, with the intention to extend after successful completion of the probation period.
- Comprehensive regional benefits and perks.
Skills
Python, SQL, Distributed Data Systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Data Pipelines, Streaming, Lakehouse, Databricks, Machine Learning, Data Governance, Snowflake, Azure Synapse
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