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

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Maryland; Virginia; Washington, D.C.
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $219,100-$301,300 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- Apache Spark
- MLflow
- Delta Lake
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- SQL
- R
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Data Engineering
- Data Warehousing

### Nice to have
- Degree in a quantitative discipline

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