# Lead Solutions Architect (Digital Natives Business)

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

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## Description

At Databricks, our core values drive everything we do, creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer-centric mindset.

As a Lead Solutions Architect in the UK&I Digital Natives Business, you will be an essential part of our mission to change how people work with data and make a better world.

## The impact you will have:

- Executive Evangelism & Thought Leadership: Build peer-to-peer relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical founders at high-growth DNBs.

- Drive New Logo Motion: Execute the high-velocity 'Hunter DNA' to win mindshare and acquire new logos.

- Ecosystem Building: Drive awareness within the UK startup and VC ecosystem.

- Strategic Technical Discovery: Focus on high-level architecture and strategic road-mapping.

- Regional Mentorship: Coach Solutions Architects on engaging effectively with CxOs.

- Technical Community Engagement: Develop high-impact, customer-facing collateral and lead technical seminars.

## What we look for:

- Startup Leadership & Scaling Experience: 10+ years of professional experience, including significant time spent as a tech co-founder, Head of Engineering, VP-level leader, or high-impact technical contributor within high-growth startups.

- Executive Presence: Proven ability to influence and win trust with senior technical stakeholders and C-level executives.

- Technical Depth with an Evangelist Spike: Strong technical background in Operational Databases, Data Engineering, Data Science, or AI.

- Operational Database and Real-Time Data Architecture: Experience with modern operational database architectures and building scalable, data-driven applications.

- Startup Ecosystem Knowledge: 5+ years of deep familiarity with the startup and VC landscape.

- High Velocity Mindset: Experience working with early-stage, high-growth digital natives.

- Problem-Solving Agility: Ability to innovate technical solutions for specialised customer needs.

- Communication Excellence: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both highly technical audiences and business decision-makers.

## Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

## Skills

### Required
- Operational Databases
- Data Engineering
- Data Science
- AI
- Technical Evangelism
- Startup Leadership
- Executive Presence
- Real-Time Data Architecture
- Startup Ecosystem Knowledge
- High Velocity Mindset
- Problem-Solving Agility
- Communication Excellence

### Nice to have
- PostgreSQL-compatible systems
- Lakehouse integrated architectures
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Agentic Workflows
- model fine-tuning (Mosaic AI)
- efficient inference at scale

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