Description
We are seeking a Pre-sales Senior Technical Solutions Engineer (Data and AI) to join our Field Engineering team at Databricks. As a Senior Technical Solutions Engineer, you will be an essential part of our mission to make data science and analytics accessible to everyone. You will use your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Databricks Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges.
You will work with a collaborative, customer-focused team that values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customised solutions to help our customers achieve their goals and guide their businesses forward.
The impact you will have:
- Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value in collaboration with an Account Executive and a Senior Solutions Architect.
- Generate excitement from clients about Databricks through hands-on evaluation and Spark programming, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications.
- Contribute to building the Databricks technical community through engagement at workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
- Become a Big Data Analytics advisor on aspects of architecture and design.
- Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.
- Develop both technically and in pre-sales, with the goal of becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect.
What we look for:
- Experience, technical customer-facing and with a background in Data Science / Generative AI / Machine Learning / Data Warehousing or Data Engineering.
- Familiarity with working with clients, creating a narrative, answering customer questions, aligning the agenda with important interests, and achieving tangible outcomes.
- Ability to independently deliver a technical proposition, identify customers' pain points and explain important areas for business value to develop a trusted advisor skillset.
- Code in a core programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala.
- Knowledgeable in a core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design.
- The role requires travel to customer sites in the UK. Travelling approx. 20-30% of the time.
Benefits: At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.