Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Benelux Strategic Accounts
Databricks2 months ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical strategy for customer accounts from discovery through production deployment and consumption growth.
- Lead architecture discussions and design scalable solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, streaming, 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 serve as a team resource in that domain.
- Coordinate Delivery, Specialist, and Partner Solution Architects for complex customer solutions.
- Provide structured customer and competitive feedback to influence product direction.
- Drive platform adoption and consumption growth within customer accounts.
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 designing 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.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, whiteboarding, design reviews, and trade-off analysis with senior technical stakeholders.
- Experience deploying solutions in production on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure, security, and governance considerations.
- Track record of driving platform adoption and consumption growth within 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.
- Experience in Oil & Gas or Manufacturing, Databricks certifications, familiarity with Snowflake and AWS native services, Azure Synapse, or experience at a data/AI company or cloud provider are beneficial.
Benefits
- Office-based role in Amsterdam with a hybrid schedule.
- Initial 12-month fixed-term contract with the intention to extend after successful completion of the probation period.
- Comprehensive region-specific employee benefits and perks.
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.