Senior Solutions Engineer

Summary

Join Databricks as a Senior Solutions Engineer in the Milan region and help customers leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You will build relationships with clients, providing technical and business value. Responsibilities include hands-on evaluations, Spark programming, and contributing to the Databricks technical community. You will advise on Big Data Analytics architecture and design, authoring reference architectures and demo applications. The role requires familiarity with client interaction, coding (Python, SQL, Java), Big Data Analytics, and a major public cloud platform. Fluency in Italian is mandatory. The position offers professional development to become an independently operating Solutions Architect.

Requirements

• Familiarity working with clients, creating a narrative, answering customer questions, aligning the agenda with important interests, and achieving tangible outcomes
• Ability to independently deliver a technical proposition, identify customers' pain-points, and explain important areas for business value to develop a trusted advisor skillset
• Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, SQL, Java) and willingness to learn a base level of Spark
• Knowledgeable in a core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform
• Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design
• The location for the role must be in the Milan region (or within a commutable distance for a hybrid schedule)
• Fluency in Italian is required as a minimum

Responsibilities

• Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value in collaboration with an Account Executive and the wider Field Engineering team
• Gain excitement from clients about Databricks through hands-on evaluation and Spark programming, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications
• Contribute to building the Databricks technical community through engagement at workshops, seminars, and meet-ups
• Become a Big Data Analytics advisor on aspects of architecture and design
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Develop both technically and in the pre-sales aspect with the goal of becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect