Sr. Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality
Databricks2 months ago
Base Salary
$219k - $301k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the main technical voice for 1–5 enterprise clients.
- Define and direct technical strategy for large Retail and CPG accounts in partnership with Account Executives.
- Lead customers through evaluation, adoption, and data-driven business transformation using Databricks.
- Build technical champions and align account strategies around Databricks solutions.
- Provide structured mentorship to other team members.
- Maintain and extend production data systems to address complex customer needs.
- Support pre-sales activities, including technical account management, value selling, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience working with very large accounts in the Retail and CPG-related space.
- 4+ years of experience in a pre-sales capacity or supporting sales activity.
- Technical expertise in big data, data science, and cloud.
- Experience driving data-driven business transformation and organizational change.
- 4+ years of design and implementation experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP, or with full-lifecycle data science solutions.
- Production programming experience in Python, R, Scala, or Java.
- Databricks Certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote work is indicated in the posting.
- Databricks offers comprehensive regional benefits and perks, with specific details varying by location.
- The compensation package may include annual performance bonus and equity in addition to the stated pay range.
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.