Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (SLED)

As a Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (SLED) at Databricks, you will lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You will exercise and develop expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science and machine learning. This is a customer-facing role, where you will work with customers, your teammates, the product team, and our post-sales teams, to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through the implementation, to accomplish value.

In this role, you will:

• 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

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• 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)
• Desired: Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

This is a full-time role with a salary range of $219,100-$301,300 USD per year, plus benefits and equity.