Remote Senior Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Databricks as a Solutions Architect to lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, supporting multiple cabinet level US Federal agencies. As a customer-facing role, you will work with customers, teammates, and product teams to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through implementation.

Requirements

• 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
• Experience supporting Public Sector, Defense, or Intelligence clients
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
• Clearance (Secret, Top Secret)
• US Citizen

Responsibilities

• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
• Consult on big data architecture, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
• Build and present references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
• Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Travel to customers in your region