Solutions Architect Greenfield Enterprise France
Databricks5 days ago
Paris, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical strategy for Greenfield customer accounts from discovery through production deployment and consumption growth.
- Lead complex architecture discussions and design scalable, production-grade solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, streaming, and real-time analytics.
- Advise customer architects, engineering leads, and directors as a trusted technical partner.
- Demonstrate Databricks differentiation through custom-built solutions in competitive scenarios.
- Develop a technical specialization and become a go-to resource for the team in that domain.
- Orchestrate DSAs, SSAs, and partners to deliver comprehensive customer solutions.
- Provide structured customer and competitive feedback to influence product direction.
Requirements
- At least 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, with a developing specialization in an area such as streaming, ML/AI, data governance, or migrations.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, whiteboarding, design reviews, and trade-off analysis with senior technical stakeholders.
- Experience with production deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure, security, and governance considerations.
- A track record of driving platform adoption and consumption growth within customer accounts.
- Excellent communication skills for translating complex architectures into business value for technical and executive audiences.
- Fluency in French and English.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Databricks certifications, experience with Snowflake, AWS native services, or Azure Synapse, cloud-provider or data/AI company experience, and industry expertise are preferred.
Benefits
- The role is based in Paris or within commuting distance of the office.
- Regional benefits and perks are provided, with specific details available for the employee's 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.