Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (SLED)
Leads technical sales for Databricks platform in Public Sector, partnering with sales to architect solutions, build POCs, and guide customer adoption using Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud providers. Requires 8+ years customer-facing experience and expertise in distributed data systems.
About the job
The impact you will have:
- Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
- Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
- Consult on big data architecture, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
- Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
- Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
- Travel to customers in your region
What we look for:
- 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
- Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
- Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
- Experience supporting Public Sector clients
- Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
- [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
- US Citizen
Skills
Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Python, Scala, Java, SQL, R, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hadoop, Kafka
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