Solutions Architect - Communications, Media, Entertainment and Games
Databricks2 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $248k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical strategy for customer accounts from discovery through production deployment and consumption growth.
- Lead architecture discussions and design scalable, production-grade solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics.
- Advise customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors on technical strategy and trade-offs.
- Build custom solutions and demonstrate Databricks differentiation in competitive scenarios.
- Develop a technical specialization and become a team resource in that domain.
- 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 pre-sales, 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, plus a developing technical specialization.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, whiteboarding, design reviews, and trade-off analysis with senior technical stakeholders.
- Production deployment experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure, security, and governance considerations.
- Track record of driving platform adoption and consumption growth within customer accounts.
- Strong 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, competitive platform experience with Snowflake, AWS native services, or Azure Synapse, and data/AI or cloud provider experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with details varying by region.
- The interview process includes recruiter screening, hiring manager screening, design and architecture interviewing, live coding, a build/demo/pitch presentation, and reference checking.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).