Senior Solutions Architect (EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse Migrations)
Databricks3 months ago
Berlin, Germany or Munich, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Lead EMEA technical go-to-market and adoption strategies for large-scale enterprise data warehouse migrations to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
- Develop scalable migration processes, technical guides, guardrails, and programmatic assets for field teams and partners.
- Build, maintain, enhance, and direct automated assessment tooling informed by customer engagements.
- Serve as the tier-3 technical escalation point for complex, strategic, stalled, and mission-critical migrations.
- Mentor and coach EMEA Solutions Architects and Specialist Solutions Architects to scale the presales migration practice.
- Provide technical feedback to Product Management and Engineering and collaborate with Professional Services and Global Systems Integrators.
- Create whitepapers, technical blogs, presentations, demos, and other enablement assets for customers, field teams, and public forums.
Requirements
- 8+ years of customer-facing experience in pre-sales, architecture, or consulting roles influencing technical executives and driving database modernization strategy.
- Experience with legacy enterprise data warehouse systems and architectures, including Teradata, Netezza, Snowflake, Synapse, Redshift, or Exadata.
- Mastery of enterprise data warehouse migration scope and progression toward the full capabilities of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
- Hands-on experience with Lakehouse architecture, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing big data architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience collaborating with Professional Services and Global Systems Integrators to standardize migration delivery methodologies and ensure smooth handoffs.
- Experience with strategic enablement, community mentorship, technical presentations, and thought leadership is relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Databricks offers comprehensive employee benefits and perks, with details varying by region.
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.