Databricks

Sr. Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business, Strategics

Databricks$219K — $301K *
US-Anywhere
+ 3 other locationsRemote
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
  • Experience with building distributed data systems
  • Proficient in Python and SQL programming and debugging
  • Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Expertise in either Data Engineering (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) or Data Science/Machine Learning (pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
  • Available for regional customer travel
  • [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
  • Nice to have: Databricks Certification

Responsibilities

  • Partner with sales team to provide technical leadership for customer business solutions
  • Lead technical discovery and design architectures for data engineering, data science, and machine learning
  • Implement proof of concepts for strategic data projects
  • Act as a strategic technical advisor to drive customer business outcomes
  • Collaborate with fellow Solutions Architects for mutual support and user assistance
  • Promote and recruit contributors for Databricks open-source projects within the developer community

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Flexible remote work options
  • Annual performance bonus eligibility
  • Stock equity options
  • Support for professional development and training
Full Job Description
As a Sr. Solutions Architect on the team supporting the strategic Digital Natives Business (DNB) customers, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world.

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with customers, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions along the way.

The impact you will have:
  • You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
  • Lead technical discovery and design architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. You will also help customers build solutions that integrate with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications.
  • Act as strategic technical advisor to customers to help them drive business outcomes.
  • Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users.
  • Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Omnigent) across the developer community.

What we look for:
  • 7+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
  • Experience building distributed data systems
  • Comfortable programming in and debugging Python and SQL
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Expertise in one of the following:
    • Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
    • Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow)
  • Available to travel to customers in your region
  • [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
  • Nice to have: Databricks Certification
  • Location: Remote (Pacific Time preferred; Mountain Time considered).

NOTE: If your experience isn't a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you're a good fit for the role, apply. We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Local Pay Range

$219,100-$301,300 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is a unified analytics platform that provides data engineering, collaborative data science, and machine learning capabilities. The company was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine. Databricks provides a cloud-based platform that allows data teams to collaborate and build data pipelines, run machine learning models, and perform advanced analytics. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $38 billion as of November 2021.
Learn more about Databricks
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2,000 employees
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Founded
2013

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