Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (Defense Industrial Base)

Mission Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.

As a Sr. Solutions Architect, you will exercise and develop expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science and machine learning, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake.

This is a customer-facing role, where you will work with customers, teammates, the product team, and post-sales teams to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using the platform, and guide customers through implementation.

Key responsibilities:

• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can 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 across developer communities
• Travel to customers in your region

Requirements:

• 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in at least one of: Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
• Experience supporting Public Sector clients
• Built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (desired)
• US Citizen

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees
• Eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits