Senior Solutions Engineer

Summary

Join Databricks and become a key player in helping customers solve complex data challenges using our Data Intelligence Platform. You will build strong client relationships, showcasing Databricks' capabilities through hands-on evaluations and Spark programming. Responsibilities include contributing to the Databricks technical community, advising on Big Data Analytics architecture and design, and creating supporting documentation like reference architectures and demo applications. Professional development is encouraged, with the goal of becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect. The role requires strong client interaction skills, technical proficiency in programming languages like Python or SQL, and Big Data Analytics knowledge. Success involves effectively communicating technical solutions and business value to clients.

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
• Code in a core programming language such as Python or SQL
• 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 Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value in collaboration with an Account Executive and a Senior Solutions Architect
• 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