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 solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, streaming, lakehouse patterns, 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, with 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 deploying production systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure, security, and governance considerations.
- Proven ability to drive platform adoption and consumption growth within customer accounts.
- Excellent 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 and experience with Snowflake, AWS native services, Azure Synapse, data/AI companies, cloud providers, or relevant industry domains are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with details varying by region.
- The total compensation package may include an annual performance bonus and equity.
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).