Senior Delivery Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Databricks as a Sr Delivery Solutions Architect (Sr DSA) and play a key role in accelerating the adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Collaborate with sales and field engineering teams to drive growth and ensure customer success, focusing on complex accounts. This hybrid technical and commercial role requires leading customer stakeholders, building executive relationships, and acting as the post-sale technical lead across all Databricks products. You will be responsible for creating and executing strategies to maximize customer value and return on investment. The position involves navigating internal teams, providing technical leadership, and reporting on key performance indicators. This role requires significant experience in data and AI project delivery and strong technical skills.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience where you have been accountable for technical project / program delivery within the domain of Data and AI and where you can contribute to technical debate and design choices with customers
• Programming experience in Python, SQL or Scala
• Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, customer success, or consulting role
• Understanding of solution architecture related distributed data systems
• Understanding of how to attribute business value and outcomes to specific project deliverables
• Technical program, or project management including account, stakeholder and resource management accountability
• Experience resolving complex and important escalation with senior customer executives
• Experience conducting open-ended discovery workshops, creating strategic roadmaps, conducting business analysis and managing delivery of complex programs/projects
• Track record of overachievement against quota, Goals or similar objective targets
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Can travel up to 30% when needed

Responsibilities

• Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritised customers
• Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
• Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume Databricks
• Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to production/go live status of agreed upon use cases within an account, oftentimes services multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations
• Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services and Support resources, along with escalating to expert level technical experts to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise
• Create, own and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews and upgrade needs
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the below work streams: Main use cases moving from ‘win’ to production Enablement / user growth plan Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Databricks’ Lakehouse vision) Organic needs for current investment (e.g. cloud cost control, tuning & optimization) Executive and operational governance
• Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important risks, product adoption and use case progression - to your Technical GM

Benefits

• $169,000 — $299,000 USD
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity