Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Retail/CPG

As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect, you will guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands-on environment throughout the sales process.

You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the Retail/CPG field.

Your main goal will be to help customers achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

The impact you will have:

• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
• Lead prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
• Support customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
• Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups
• Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value

What we look for:

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
• Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others
• Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark, Java and R is also desirable
• Experience working with Enterprise Accounts
• Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English