Lead Solutions Architect - Generative AI (EMEA Emerging DNB)
Databricks27 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical authority on Generative AI, LLMs, and applied machine learning for strategic EMEA Emerging DNB customer engagements.
- Partner with Solutions Architects, Solutions Engineers, and Account teams to scope, design, and de-risk GenAI use cases.
- Build hands-on proofs of concept and production-quality reference implementations for LLM and deep learning workloads on Databricks.
- Lead fine-tuning, model-customization, evaluation, and safety engagements using open LLMs.
- Connect customer and field feedback with Product and Engineering roadmaps.
- Mentor and enable the EMEA Emerging DNB Field Engineering organization through workshops and reference architectures.
- Represent Databricks through conference talks, blogs, and customer executive briefings.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of proprietary and open-source LLMs and their capabilities, trade-offs, and use cases.
- Deep expertise in RAG, agents, tool use, fine-tuning, model customization, prompt engineering, evaluation engineering, and LLM safety guardrails.
- Strong foundations in machine learning and deep learning, including distributed training, GPU workloads, and the full MLOps lifecycle.
- Proficiency in Python and the ML ecosystem, including PyTorch, Transformers, MLflow, and Spark.
- Experience with Databricks or the ability to learn the platform quickly, including Mosaic AI, Model Serving, Vector Search, and Unity Catalog.
- Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Excellent communication and consultative skills with both engineers and senior technical executives.
- Track record of technical leadership and mentorship in fast-moving, high-growth customer environments.
- Background helping digital-native customers build data and ML solutions is a strong plus.
- Public technical presence, regulated-industry experience, and experience influencing Product and Engineering roadmaps are nice-to-have qualifications.
- Based in the United Kingdom, able to work across EMEA time zones, and willing to travel to customer sites in the region.
Benefits
- Comprehensive regional benefits and perks are offered; specific details depend on the employee’s region.
- The role is listed as remote/hybrid in the Netherlands and requires travel across Europe, although the qualifications state that candidates should be based in the United Kingdom.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Databricks
Databricks builds a cloud-based data and AI platform centered on the lakehouse architecture, combining data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. It sells subscriptions and cloud services to enterprises that need to unify data pipelines and develop large-scale AI and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves organizations across many industries.