# Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Kansai Region

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Japan
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud) – Kansai Region, your mission will be to drive successful technical evaluations and solution designs for some of our focus customers in the Kansai region (Osaka/Kyoto) for Databricks Japan.

You are passionate about data and AI, love getting hands-on with technology, and enjoy communicating its value to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Partnering closely with Account Executives, you will lead the technical discovery, architecture design, and proof-of-concept phases, and act as a trusted advisor to our customers on their data and AI strategy.

You will help customers realize tangible, data-driven outcomes on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform by guiding data and AI teams to design, build, and operationalize solutions within their enterprise ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

- Be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design

- Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks

- Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications

- Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures

- Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups

What we look for:

- Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets

- Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous

- Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding

- Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

- Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others

- Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark, Java, and R is also desirable

- Experience working with Enterprise Accounts

- Written and verbal fluency in Japanese

Benefits:

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, click here.

## Skills

### Required
- Big Data Analytics
- Apache Spark
- AI
- Data Science
- Data Engineering
- Hadoop
- Cassandra
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- R
- Public Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP