# Sr. Solutions Architect - Automotive

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

As a Sr. Solutions Architect, you are an expert-level technical leader responsible for the organisation's most complex customer engagements.

You drive consumption strategy, own executive-level relationships, and serve as the definitive technical authority for your accounts.

The Impact You Will Have:

- Drive the technical and consumption strategy for the organisation's most complex customer engagements, directly influencing platform adoption and revenue growth.

- Own senior-level technical relationships , serving as a trusted advisor on enterprise data and AI strategy.

- Lead the most complex architecture engagements: multi-workload platforms, enterprise-wide migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale.

- Operate as an Expert on the Databricks Platform with a declared archetype , actively mentoring others and driving horizontal impact across your team.

- Develop and execute competitive strategies for your customers, positioning Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms.

- Orchestrate cross-functional teams (DSAs, SSAs, Partners, Product) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

- Coach and develop junior SAs (L3–L5) on technical depth, customer engagement, and use case prioritization.

- Contribute to Field Engineering thought leadership through customer-facing content, workshops, and community engagement.

What We Look For:

- 8+ years in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role.

- Expert-level coding proficiency , Python, SQL, and ideally Spark/PySpark.

- Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture: distributed systems at scale, streaming/real-time, lakehouse design patterns, data governance frameworks, and cloud-native platforms.

- Expert-level Databricks Platform knowledge (or equivalent depth in competing platforms with demonstrated rapid learning ability).

- Declared technical specialization with recognised depth , e.g., real-time architectures, ML/AI platforms, data governance, large-scale migrations, or industry-specific solutions.

- Proven track record of driving consumption growth and platform adoption in large accounts.

- Executive presence , ability to influence Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders on long-term data and AI strategy.

- Experience leading competitive displacements and complex enterprise evaluations.

- Strong strategic thinking , connecting technical architecture decisions to business outcomes and revenue impact.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience); advanced degrees are valued.

- Ability to travel on a weekly basis.

Nice to Have:

- Full professional proficiency in English and German.

- Automotive industry expertise with executive-level domain credibility.

- Databricks certifications.

- Prior experience at Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or a top-tier data/AI company.

- Published thought leadership (blogs, conference talks, open source contributions).

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Spark/PySpark
- Databricks Platform
- enterprise data architecture
- distributed systems
- streaming/real-time
- lakehouse design patterns
- data governance frameworks
- cloud-native platforms

### Nice to have
- English
- German
- Automotive industry expertise
- Databricks certifications
- prior experience at Databricks/Snowflake/AWS/Google/Microsoft

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