Solutions Architect – Digital Sovereignty
Databricks7 hours ago
Munich, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical advisor for digital sovereignty with strategic and regulated customers across Germany.
- Design and validate sovereign reference architectures and run end-to-end proofs of concept and pilots.
- Evaluate performance, scalability, security, network connectivity, and data-volume requirements and provide go/no-go recommendations.
- Collaborate with sovereign cloud and storage partners through joint solution design, technical enablement, co-selling, and customer workshops.
- Explain digital sovereignty topics including CLOUD Act, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, BSI C5, EU Data Act, open formats, and exit strategies.
- Feed field requirements to Product and Engineering and collaborate with Legal, Security, and Compliance.
- Create reference architectures, demos, PoC playbooks, Terraform and automation templates, and customer collateral.
- Build market visibility through workshops, meetups, webinars, and conference talks.
- Rapidly build working customer prototypes with AI-assisted development.
- Travel within Germany for customer and partner meetings.
Requirements
- Fluent German and business-level English are required for daily customer, partner, and internal communication.
- Substantial experience in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or consulting with complex enterprise customers across the full sales lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with data platforms on Azure, AWS, or GCP, ideally including Apache Spark and/or Databricks.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure, private connectivity, VPNs, private endpoints, identity and access management, encryption, and BYOK/HYOK key management.
- Experience with object storage, S3-compatible storage such as MinIO, open table formats including Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, and secure data-sharing patterns.
- Working knowledge of the German and EU regulatory and sovereignty landscape, including GDPR, CLOUD Act implications, NIS2, DORA, BSI C5, and KRITIS.
- Ability to lead technical and business discussions with C-level executives, coordinate cross-functional and partner teams, and influence long-term customer outcomes.
- Hands-on coding ability in Python and SQL.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience such as Terraform is a plus.
- Daily fluent use of AI tools, coding assistants, and agents, including the ability to build and critically evaluate AI-assisted prototypes.
- Experience with European or sovereign cloud providers, public sector organizations, or regulated industries is a strong plus.
- Strong judgment in prioritizing use cases and investments and navigating competitive markets.
Benefits
- Remote work or work from a Databricks office anywhere in Germany.
- Comprehensive region-specific employee benefits and perks.
- Opportunity to shape a strategically important digital sovereignty motion across Germany and EMEA.
- Collaboration with Field Engineering leadership, Product, and the partner ecosystem.
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.