# Solutions Architect - Strat Media

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000-$247,500 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

At Databricks, our customers challenge us with solving some of the world's toughest data problems.

As a Solutions Architect, you will lead the technical strategy for your customers , owning architecture discussions, driving platform adoption, and serving as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and architects.

The Impact You Will Have

- Own the end-to-end technical strategy for your accounts, from initial discovery through production deployment and consumption growth

- Lead complex architecture discussions , designing scalable, production-grade solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics

- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors

- Drive technical wins in competitive scenarios by demonstrating Databricks’ differentiation through custom-built solutions

- Develop and declare an emerging technical specialization (archetype) , becoming a go-to resource for your team in that domain

- Orchestrate cross-functional resources (DSAs, SSAs, Partners) to deliver comprehensive solutions for complex customer needs

- Influence product direction by providing structured feedback on customer requirements and competitive gaps

What We Look For

- 6+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role

- Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL , you must demonstrate live coding, debugging, and solution-building skills

- Deep expertise in distributed data systems architecture: designing scalable pipelines, streaming architectures, lakehouse patterns, and cloud-native data platforms

- Proficient on the Databricks Platform (or demonstrated ability to achieve proficiency rapidly) with a developing technical specialization in one area (e.g., real-time/streaming, ML/AI, data governance, migrations)

- Proven ability to lead architecture discussions with senior technical stakeholders , whiteboarding, design reviews, and trade-off analysis

- Experience with production deployments on public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including infrastructure, security, and governance considerations

- Track record of driving platform adoption and consumption growth within accounts

- Excellent communication skills , able to translate complex architectures into business value for both technical and executive audiences

- Ability to travel to customers 30% of the time

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience)

Nice to Have:

- Databricks certifications (Data Engineer, ML, Platform)

- Experience with competitive platforms (Snowflake, AWS native services, Azure Synapse) , understanding the landscape you'll position against

- Background in a data/AI company or cloud provider

- Industry domain expertise (Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Media, etc.)

Benefits

- Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees

Interview Process: Recruiter Screen → Hiring Manager Screen → Design and Architecture Interview → Live Coding Assessment → Build, Demo, Pitch! Presentation → Reference Check

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- distributed data systems architecture
- Databricks Platform
- cloud-native data platforms

### Nice to have
- Databricks certifications
- competitive platforms (Snowflake, AWS native services, Azure Synapse)
- data/AI company or cloud provider
- industry domain expertise

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