# Sr. Solutions Engineer
**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Salary:** $152K-$209K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, SQL, Python, Scala, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, pandas
**Posted:** 2026-03-17
> Design scalable data architectures using Databricks for customers, drive technical sales discussions, build demos, and validate integrations. Requires 3+ years pre-sales experience with big data, SQL fluency, and programming in Python/Scala/Java.
## Job Description
## Impact/Responsibilities
- Work with Sales to develop account strategies and grow platform usage.
- Establish Databricks Lakehouse as standard data architecture through technical planning.
- Build and present reference architectures and demo applications for prospects.
- Consult on big data architectures, data engineering pipelines, data science/ML projects; validate integrations.
- Promote Databricks open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) in communities.

## Requirements
- 3+ years in customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role.
- Expertise in at least one: Big data engineering (**Spark**, Hadoop, Kafka); Data Warehousing/ETL (**SQL**, OLTP/OLAP/DSS); Data Science/ML (pandas, scikit-learn, HPO); Data Applications (Logs Analysis, Threat Detection, etc.).
- Translate business needs to technology solutions and gain stakeholder buy-in.
- Experience designing, architecting, presenting data systems, and delivering production solutions.
- Fluent in **SQL** and database technology.
- Debug/development in **Python**, **Scala**, **Java**, or **R**.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Built solutions with **AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP**.
- Degree in quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research).
- Up to 30% travel.
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