Solutions Architect - Benelux Fungible
Databricks2 months ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead time-boxed strategic customer engagements from evaluation to production-grade technical wins.
- Own architecture strategy, design scalable data and AI solutions, and lead whiteboarding, design reviews, and trade-off decisions.
- Build, debug, and demonstrate working solutions using Python and SQL.
- Demonstrate Databricks capabilities in competitive technical evaluations and drive platform adoption.
- Transition engagement outcomes to core solutions architects, specialists, data specialists, or partners.
- Capture reusable patterns, engagement plays, and product feedback for the wider field engineering organization.
Requirements
- Typically six or more years of experience in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role, or equivalent depth.
- Hands-on coding ability in Python and SQL.
- Experience with distributed data systems, production cloud deployments, scalable pipelines, streaming, lakehouse patterns, and the infrastructure, security, and governance needed to operate them.
- Proficiency with the Databricks Platform or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on new technologies.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, design reviews, trade-off analysis, recommendations, and business-value communication with engineers and executives.
- Comfort with ambiguity, time-boxed engagements, prioritization, variety, and high-impact work.
- Databricks Data Engineer, ML, or Platform certifications are desirable.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, AWS native services, and Azure Synapse, including competitive positioning, is desirable.
- Experience in a data/AI company or cloud provider, or depth in an industry vertical such as financial services, healthcare, retail, or media, is desirable.
Benefits
- Initial 12-month fixed-term contract with intention to extend upon successful completion of the probation period.
- Office-based role in Amsterdam with a hybrid schedule.
- Comprehensive regional benefits and perks.
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.