Solutions Architect (Presales, Data & AI, Digital Native Business)
Databricks2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own account-level technical strategy from discovery through production deployment and consumption growth.
- Lead architecture discussions and design scalable solutions across data engineering, ML/AI, streaming, real-time analytics, and lakehouse patterns.
- Advise customer architects, engineering leads, and directors on technical architecture and trade-offs.
- Build custom solutions and demonstrations to support competitive technical wins.
- Develop a technical specialization and become a recognized domain resource within the team.
- Coordinate DSAs, SSAs, and partners to deliver comprehensive customer solutions.
- Provide structured customer and competitive feedback to influence product direction.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical presales, or a senior hands-on technical role.
- Strong Python and SQL coding proficiency, including live coding, debugging, and solution building.
- Deep expertise in distributed data systems, scalable pipelines, streaming architectures, lakehouse patterns, and cloud-native data platforms.
- Proficiency with the Databricks Platform or the ability to become proficient rapidly.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, whiteboarding, design reviews, and trade-off analysis with senior technical stakeholders.
- Experience deploying production systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure, security, and governance considerations.
- Demonstrated success driving platform adoption and consumption growth within customer accounts.
- Excellent communication skills for translating complex architectures into business value for technical and executive audiences.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Databricks certifications, experience with Snowflake, AWS native services, or Azure Synapse, data/AI or cloud-provider experience, and relevant industry expertise are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive regional benefits and perks are offered; specific details vary by region.
- The role is located in London, UK.
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.