# Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Retail/CPG

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Tokyo
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- Big Data Analytics
- Data Engineering
- Data Science
- Apache Spark
- Public Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- R
- Hadoop
- Cassandra

### Nice to have
- Pre-sales experience
- Post-sales experience
- Customer-facing experience
- Japanese language
- English language

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