# Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Observability

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**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

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Engineering & Observability, you will guide customers through cloud data engineering transformations across a wide variety of use cases. In this customer-facing role, you will collaborate with and support Solutions Architects. This requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data warehousing technologies and lakehouse architecture.

The SSA teams help customers navigate evaluations and successful production planning for their business intelligence workloads while aligning their technical roadmap with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, continuous learning, and internal training programs. In this role, you will establish yourself as a leader in the data engineering and warehousing specialty.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects and large-scale data warehousing workloads.

- Proving the value of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for customer workloads by architecting production workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization.

- Architecting production-level data pipelines, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization.

- Becoming a technical expert in an area such as data lake technology, big data streaming, or big data ingestion and workflows.

- Assisting Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale, including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures.

- Providing tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations).

- Contributing to the Databricks Community.

Requirements include:

- 5+ years of experience in a technical role with deep expertise across data engineering and data warehousing.

- Software / Data Engineering: Hands-on experience with data ingestion, streaming technologies (e.g., Spark Streaming, Kafka), performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions.

- Data Applications Engineering: Experience building data-driven use cases, such as risk modeling, fraud detection, and customer lifetime value (LTV).

- Data Observability: Experience with SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel), telemetry/high-velocity log ingestion, and anomaly detection.

- Proven track record of maintaining, scaling, and extending production data systems to evolve with complex business needs.

- Deep expertise across multiple core data engineering domains, including designing and scaling cost-efficient, high-performance data workloads (ETL/ELT, analytics) in cloud environments, building and migrating large-scale data pipelines, and developing and managing modern lakehouse and warehouse systems.

- Production programming experience in SQL and at least one of the following: Python, Scala, or Java.

- Strong familiarity with cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Degree or Equivalent: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

- Prior customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role.

- Ability to meet expectations for technical training and role-specific milestones within 6 months of hire.

- Willingness to travel up to 30% as needed.

## Skills

### Required
- data engineering
- data warehousing
- lakehouse architecture
- Spark Streaming
- Kafka
- performance tuning
- troubleshooting
- debugging
- SIEM tools
- telemetry
- log ingestion
- anomaly detection
- SQL
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- cloud infrastructure providers
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP

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