About the company
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.
About the role
As a Solutions Architect at Databricks within the Field Engineering org you will partner with our customers to design scalable data architectures using Databricks technology and services. You will work with Sales and other essential partners to develop account strategies for your assigned accounts to grow their usage of the platform.
Responsibilities
- Work with Sales and other essential partners to develop account strategies for your assigned accounts
- Establish the Databricks Lakehouse architecture as the standard data architecture for customers through excellent technical account planning
- Build and present reference architectures and demo applications for prospects
- Capture the technical win by consulting on big data architectures, data engineering pipelines, and data science/machine learning projects
- Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities
Requirements
- 7+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
- Expertise in at least one of: Big data engineering (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka); Data Warehousing & ETL (SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS); Data Science and Machine Learning (pandas, scikit-learn, HPO); Data Applications
- Experience translating a customer's business needs to technology solutions
- Experienced at designing, architecting, and presenting data systems for customers
- Fluent in SQL and database technology
- Debug and development experience in at least one of the following languages: Python, Scala, Java, or R
- [Desired] Built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline
Conditions
- Travel to customers in your region up to 30% of the time
- Canada Pay Range: $185,000 — $225,000 CAD
- Total compensation package may include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits