Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Databricks as a Solutions Architect and lead the adoption of Apache Spark and Databricks. You will engage with the developer community, consult with customers on architecture and design, build reference architectures, and provide escalated support. This pre-sales and post-sales role requires expertise in Apache Spark and big data technologies. You will work with highly technical customers, requiring strong communication and presentation skills. Travel to customer locations is required. Become an Apache Spark expert and contribute to the open-source community.

Requirements

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation and whiteboarding skills
• Comfortable with traveling to multiple customer locations
• 3-5 years in customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture or consulting role
• Ability to design and architect distributed data systems
• Comfortable writing code in either Python, Scala or Java
• Experience with Big Data Technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and Storm
• BS in Computer Science or a related field such as Information Systems or Mathematics

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in a pre-sales and post-sales capacity for customers to support successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks
• Consult on architecture and design, bootstrap, and/or implement strategic customer projects
• Build reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
• Provide escalated level of support for critical customer operational issues
• Architect, implement, and/or validate integrations with 3rd party applications
• Evangelize Spark and Databricks across developer community through meetups and conferences
• Become an Apache Spark expert

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with open source and/or AWS/cloud

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks