Solutions Architect - Lakebase

The Solutions Architect (Lakebase) team executes on Databricks' strategic Product Operating Model, focusing on earlier-stage product lines to establish product market fit and drive rapid revenue growth. You will work with clients, foster relationships, and position product lines to encourage adoption and growth.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with GTM leadership and account teams to design and execute high-impact engagement strategies across your territory.
• Serve as an expert Solutions Architect and champion, building technical credibility with stakeholders to drive product adoption and vision.
• Enable clients at scale through workshops and developing customer-facing collateral.
• Influence product roadmap by translating field-derived, data-driven insights into strategic recommendations.
• Handle complex technical challenges as a tier-3 escalation point for the field.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of transactional database (OLTP) expertise.
• Credibility in influencing OLTP products with market insight.
• Experience architecting solutions integrating transactional data systems within broader Big Data, Lakehouse, and AI ecosystems.
• Infrastructure, platform, and administration expertise around disaster recovery, high availability, backup and recovery, scale-out methods, identity and security management, migrations.
• 6+ years in a customer-facing, pre-sales or consulting role influencing technical executives.
• Proven ability to co-plan large territories with Account Executives.
• Experience collaborating with Global System Integrators (GSIs) and third-party consulting organizations.
• Proficient in programming, debugging, and problem-solving using SQL and Python.
• Hands-on experience building solutions within major public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Broad experience across data engineering, data warehousing, AI, ML, governance, transactional systems, app development, and streaming.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering or similar.
• A track record of driving complex projects to completion in fast-paced, customer-facing environments.

Benefits: At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.