Senior Solutions Engineer

Summary

Join Databricks' Enterprise Greenfield team as a Senior Solution Engineer and demonstrate the value of our Data Intelligence Platform to clients in Italy. You will build strong client relationships, showcasing Databricks through hands-on evaluations and Spark programming. Responsibilities include contributing to Databricks' technical presence, advising on Big Data Analytics architecture, and creating supporting materials. You will develop both technically and in pre-sales, aiming to become an independent Solutions Architect. The role requires strong technical skills, client interaction experience, and fluency in Italian and English. Location is in the Milan region, with up to 30% travel.

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
• Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design
• 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
• Code in a core programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala
• The location for the role must be in the Milan region (or within a commutable distance for a hybrid schedule)
• Flexibility to travel (up to 20-30% as required for customer meetings, events and trainings)
• Fluency in Italian and business proficiency in English 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 other cross-functional teams
• 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 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