# Sr. Solutions Architect

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $219k – $301k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Scala, Java, SQL, Kafka, Hadoop
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Solutions Architect partnering with sales to help Public Sector (Defense Industrial Base) customers adopt Databricks for big data, analytics, and ML use cases. Requires 8+ years pre-sales technical architecture experience, distributed systems design, cloud platforms, and US citizenship.

## Job Description

## 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

## Requirements
- 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)
- US Citizen

## Nice-to-Haves
- Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

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