# Sr. Solutions Engineer - Public Sector (DoW - 4th Estate)
**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC
**Salary:** $152K-$209K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Python, Scala, Java, SQL, R, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hadoop, Kafka, pandas, scikit-learn
**Posted:** 2026-05-11
> Leads technical sales for Databricks platform in public sector, partnering with sales to architect big data solutions, build POCs, and demo integrations with Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Requires 5+ years pre-sales experience, public cloud expertise, and programming in Python/SQL/etc.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can 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 (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
- Travel to customers in your region

## Requirements
- 5+ 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
- Expertise in at least one of the following:
  - Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
  - Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
  - Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)

## Nice-to-Haves
- Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
- Secret security clearance or willingness to obtain one
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