Principal Architect - Databricks
SHI International Corp.2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead technical qualification, customer discovery, target architecture design, effort estimation, and risk assessment for Databricks pursuits.
- Develop technical proposal content and Statements of Work and maintain relationships with customer architects and stakeholders.
- Provide architectural oversight throughout delivery, validate alignment with the proposed scope, and surface technical risks early.
- Design and guide Databricks Lakehouse platforms, migrations, consolidations, data engineering solutions, AI and machine learning workloads, governance, and consumption economics.
- Define the technical scope, success measures, evidence, standards, and frameworks for market-facing Databricks service offerings.
- Collaborate with Databricks field teams, specialist architects, and customer technical stakeholders to resolve challenges and drive outcomes.
Requirements
- Substantial hands-on Databricks experience gained through a Databricks partner, Databricks directly, or management of a significant internal Databricks Lakehouse environment.
- Deep expertise in Lakehouse architecture and platform design, enterprise migration and consolidation, and data engineering, with sufficient proficiency to identify when specialist support is needed in other areas.
- Proven success delivering enterprise-scale migration and consolidation initiatives and the ability to discuss a major migration project, lessons learned, and outcomes.
- Experience operating and supporting production machine learning or AI solutions beyond proof-of-concept implementations, including operational, governance, and maintenance considerations.
- Proven principal-level technical leadership as a recognized senior technical authority who can commit organizations to scopes, architectures, and technical approaches.
- Presales experience, or delivery leadership demonstrating the ability to lead customer discussions, define scopes and solution approaches, develop proposals and Statements of Work, and stand behind technical commitments.
- Comfort working with and responding to challenges from vendor architects and technical specialists.
- Databricks certification is preferred, with support and funding available to obtain certification quickly if needed.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), and flexible spending benefits may be available.
- Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.
- World-class facilities and the technology needed to work in company offices or remotely.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About SHI International Corp.
SHI International is a privately held IT solutions provider and reseller that supplies software licensing, hardware, cloud, security, and managed services to enterprises, governments, and education customers. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, SHI operates globally with in-house integration and device configuration centers plus procurement and asset management services. It is the largest minority- and woman-owned business enterprise in the United States.