Sr. Solutions Architect
Databricks2 hours ago
Base Salary
$219k - $301k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive technical and consumption strategy for complex customer engagements and influence platform adoption and revenue growth.
- Own senior-level technical relationships and advise enterprise customers on data and AI strategy.
- Lead complex architecture engagements involving multi-workload platforms, enterprise migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale.
- Develop competitive strategies, lead competitive displacements, and position Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms.
- Orchestrate DSAs, SSAs, partners, and product teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.
- Coach junior Solutions Architects and contribute to field engineering thought leadership through content, workshops, and community engagement.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role.
- Expert coding proficiency in Python and SQL, ideally including Spark or PySpark; candidates complete a live coding assessment and platform build.
- Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, distributed systems, streaming and real-time systems, lakehouse design patterns, data governance, and cloud-native platforms.
- Expert Databricks Platform knowledge or equivalent depth in competing platforms, with a declared technical specialization such as real-time architectures, ML/AI platforms, data governance, large-scale migrations, or industry solutions.
- Proven success driving consumption growth, platform adoption, competitive displacements, and complex enterprise evaluations in large accounts.
- Ability to influence Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders and connect technical architecture decisions to business outcomes and revenue impact.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include Databricks certifications, experience at Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or a top-tier data/AI company, published thought leadership, and industry vertical expertise.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with specific details varying by region.
- The role includes a local pay range of $219,100—$301,300 USD; total compensation may also include an annual performance bonus and equity.
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.