Solutions Architect at Databricks in Location not listed

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At Databricks, our customers challenge us with solving some of the world's toughest data problems. Our customers rely on our Solutions Architect team to understand the technologies that power our platform, the broader cloud and technology ecosystems, and how they can all be brought together to solve these problems.
Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a member of our team, you will sharpen your skills on open-source projects such as Apache Spark™, MLflow, and Delta Lake to advocate the Lakehouse paradigm on public cloud providers. You will gain expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, data science, and machine learning. In this customer-facing role, you will identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through implementations to deliver strategic business value. You will partner with the sales team to build relationships with our customers and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.
Databricks' culture thrives on collaboration and teamwork, and you will contribute your knowledge to our teams by participating in our subject matter expert groups. In this role, you will report to the Solutions Architect Leader supporting the specific business segment.
If you are a technologist interested in Data and AI, and enjoy prototyping solutions for customers, this role is for you.
The impact you will have:
Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from 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 reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers
Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues
Become an expert in, and evangelize Databricks driven open-source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
Use your strengths to help your fellow SA's, and drive cross-functional relationships across the company
Travel to customers up to 30%
What we look for:
Solution Architects are customer-facing. You'll need to be comfortable communicating ideas to various audiences through presentations, whiteboarding, architecture discussions, and platform demonstrations.
4+ 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
Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Experience in at least one of the following:
Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
[Preferred] Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.)
Nice to have: Databricks Certification
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedInandFacebook.

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