As a Sr. 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 have technical depth and business knowledge, and can drive complex technology discussions that express the value of the Databricks platform throughout the sales lifecycle. In partnership with our Account Executives, you will engage with our customers' technical leads, including architects, engineers, and operations teams, with the goal of establishing yourself as a trusted advisor to achieve tangible outcomes. You will work with teams across Databricks and our executive leadership to represent your customers' needs, build valuable customer engagements, and report to the Field Engineering Manager.

The impact you will have:

• You will work with Sales and other essential partners to develop account strategies for your assigned accounts to grow their usage of the platform.
• Establish the Databricks Lakehouse architecture as the standard data architecture for customers through excellent technical account planning.
• You will build and present reference architectures and demo applications for prospects to help them understand how Databricks can be used to achieve their goals to land new users and use cases.
• Capture the technical win by consulting on big data architectures, data engineering pipelines, and data science/machine learning projects; prove out the Databricks technology for strategic customer projects; and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications.
• Become an expert in and promote Databricks-inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars.

What we look for:

• 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with expertise in at least one of the following technologies:
• Big data engineering (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Warehousing & ETL (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Data Science and Machine Learning (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
• Data Applications (Ex: Logs Analysis, Threat Detection, Real-time Systems Monitoring, Risk Analysis and more)
• Experience translating a customer's business needs to technology solutions, including establishing buy-in with essential customer stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• Experienced at designing, architecting, and presenting data systems for customers and managing the delivery of production solutions of those data architectures.
• 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 (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
• Travel to customers in your region up to 30% of the time.

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At Databricks, our core values drive everything we do; a culture of proactiveness and a customer-first mindset fuels our mission to create a unified platform that makes data science and analytics accessible to all. This role is part of our programmatic effort to develop promising field engineers—offering a launchpad for the next generation of data leaders. We aim to build leaders who will empower our customers to make informed decisions that propel their businesses forward. With our Data Intelligence Platform, we make it easy to turn insights into action while encouraging creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement. You’ll play a key role in this mission, building upon your emerging technical skills in the area of solutions engineering, learn how to apply them in the Databricks platform and show customers how to tackle real-world data challenges.  Not just telling them what's possible, but building working prototypes and demos that prove it. You’ll join a collaborative, customer-obsessed team that thrives on innovation to help customers reach their goals. Come help us change how the world works with data—and shape your future while you're at it!

This will be an in-office role and candidates must be based in our Chicago, IL office. Relocation assistance will not be provided.

Recent graduate?: We’d love for you to explore our current internship openings on our careers page and submit your application for our roles designed for new college graduates.

The impact you will have:

• Form successful relationships with customers throughout your assigned territory, providing technical and business value to Databricks customers in collaboration with Account Executives.
• Operate as an expert in big data analytics to excite customers about Databricks. You will develop into a ‘champion’ and trusted advisor on multiple areas of architecture, design, and implementation to lead to the successful adoption of the Databricks Lakehouse platform.
• Adopt a builder-first approach: move quickly from customer problem to working prototype by writing code, building demos, and creating reusable assets that accelerate customer outcomes. Use AI tools to increase your productivity and drive innovation.
• Scale best practices in your field and support customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, demo applications, and help build the Databricks community in your region by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
• Grow your knowledge and expertise to the level of a technical and/or industry specialist.

What we look for:

• The ideal candidate has 2+ years of technical experience in a customer-facing solutions engineering role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Demonstrates a builder mindset: preference for hands-on prototyping and learning-by-doing, with comfort using AI-assisted development tools to move faster
• Hands-on experience with Python, Java, or Scala, and proficiency in SQLExperience with Big Data technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and architectures is a plus
• Aptitude to interact with customers confidently and professionally
• Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire

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As a Hunter Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will shape the future of the big data landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world.

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with customers, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation; and develop technical champions along the way.

The impact you will have:

• You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
• Work directly with prospective, greenfield, customers on their 0 to 1 journey with Databricks 
• Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
• Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
• Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.

What we look for:

• 5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
• Experience building distributed data systems at scale 
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
• Experience using agentic coding harnesses and demonstrable experience scaling your work leveraging them 
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Expertise in one of the following:
• Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
• Available to travel to customers in your region
• [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

NOTE: If your experience isn’t a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you’re a good fit for the role, apply.  We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. #LI-REMOTE

As a Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will shape the future of the big data landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world.

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with customer stakeholders, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide one of our largest AI native customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation; and develop technical champions along the way.

The impact you will have:

• You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
• Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
• Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
• Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.

What we look for:

• 7+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
• Experience building distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Expertise in one of the following:
  • Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
• Available to travel to customers in your region
• [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

NOTE: If your experience isn’t a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you’re a good fit for the role, apply.  We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.

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While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.

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• You will hire, train, grow, and manage a team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode.
• Make your customers in the Agencies segment successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses.
• You will maintain a robust hiring pipeline at all times.
• Establish relationships across the business to make your customers and team successful.
• Partner with sales leadership to hit sales and consumption targets and ensure customer success
• Keep your team of SAs ahead of the technical curve. An SA adds value by maintaining advanced knowledge of the technology stack, while tying it back to key initiatives and trends across the Media Advertising industry. You will make sure that your team is continuously learning and working to provide our customers with the most comprehensive solutions for their needs

• 7+ years of professional experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, or machine learning).
• 3+ years of first-line management experience leading technical pre-sales or solutions architecture teams — including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Understanding of the advertising and media agency ecosystem — how holdcos are structured, how data flows between brands, agencies, publishers, and ad tech platforms.
• 3+ years of experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams - hiring, on-boarding, and enabling pre(and post)-sales professionals.
• A deep technical understanding of the impact that Data & AI can drive within the Media and Entertainment industry, with a specific focus on the Media Agency Ecosystem.
• Trusted advisor to technical executives who guide strategic data infrastructure decisions.
• Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, proof of concepts, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations.
• Experience hiring candidates, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting them into larger roles.
• Build team morale and foster working relationships among Field Engineering, Sales, and other key internal partners.
• Experience working with teams across Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success.
• Must be technical enough to earn the trust of Engineering talent and leadership at Databricks.
• Demonstrated architectural influence. Able to influence and review complex architectures, guiding your team and customers toward ideal solutions - that scale.

As the manager of the Digital Natives Solutions Architect (SA) team, you will focus on growing and developing a team of SAs, driving the adoption of the Databricks Platform at the fastest-growing tech companies. 

You'll be responsible for leading the team in establishing best practices throughout the full lifecycle of the customers' workloads. You will help each team member achieve success, productivity, and career growth. You will also represent Databricks as a technical leader with some of its most important customers.

This role will work in close collaboration with sales, services, product, and engineering to drive solutions and outcomes for these highly technical customers.  You will utilize excellent communication skills to clearly explain and demonstrate complex solutions to both internal and external stakeholders.

This role will report to the Director of Solutions Architecture for the Digital Native Business Named Account Unit.

Responsibilities:

• Hire and develop a team of deeply technical Solutions Architects capable of guiding digital native customers across a wide range of data, analytical, and AI workloads.
• Adapt the SA team's skills and engagement model to match the needs of Digital native customers 
• Consistently meet or exceed targets by making sure the SA team knows how to technically qualify workloads, identify important use cases, build proof of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle
• Travel to customer sites for executive sessions, technical workshops, and building relationships
• Establish relationships across internal organizations (engineering, product, services, sales, etc.) to ensure the success of the customers and team
• Stay current with emerging Data and AI trends in the digital native tech sector

What we look for:

• 7+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, cloud infrastructure, or machine learning)
• 5+ years of experience building and leading technical customer-facing teams: hiring, onboarding, and supporting team members in a high-growth environment 
• A history of building a territory, growing strategic accounts, and exceeding targets
• Inspiring a team vision about the unique nature of the digital natives business 
• A history of execution by managing workloads and consumption with sales, product, and engineering counterparts
• Experience owning executive alignment in accounts that guide strategic decisions 

As the manager of the Digital Natives Solutions Architect (SA) team, you will focus on growing and developing a team of SAs, driving the adoption of the Databricks Platform at the largest, fastest-growing tech companies. 

You'll be responsible for leading the team in establishing best practices throughout the full lifecycle of the customers' workloads. You will help each team member achieve success, productivity, and career growth. You will also represent Databricks as a technical leader with some of its most important customers.

This role will work in close collaboration with sales, services, product, and engineering to drive solutions and outcomes for these highly technical customers.  You will utilize excellent communication skills to clearly explain and demonstrate complex solutions to both internal and external stakeholders.

This role will report to the Director of Solutions Architecture for the Strategic Digital Native Business Unit.

Responsibilities:

• Hire and develop a team of deeply technical Solutions Architects capable of guiding digital native customers across a wide range of data, analytical, and AI workloads.
• Adapt the SA team's skills and engagement model to match the needs of Digital native customers 
• Consistently meet or exceed targets by making sure the SA team knows how to technically qualify workloads, identify important use cases, build proof of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle
• Travel to customer sites for executive sessions, technical workshops, and building relationships
• Establish relationships across internal organizations (engineering, product, services, sales, etc.) to ensure the success of the customers and team
• Stay current with emerging Data and AI trends in the digital native tech sector

What we look for:

• 4+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, cloud infrastructure, or machine learning)
• 3+ years of experience building and leading technical customer-facing teams: hiring, onboarding, and supporting team members in a high-growth environment 
• A history of building a territory, growing strategic accounts, and exceeding targets
• Inspiring a team vision about the unique nature of the digital natives business 
• A history of execution by managing workloads and consumption with sales, product, and engineering counterparts
• Experience owning executive alignment in accounts that guide strategic decisions 

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other US locations will be considered. #LI-REMOTE

As a Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will work with the leading data engineering, data science & ML teams in the market to push the boundaries of what big data architectures are capable of. 

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with strategic customers, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation; and develop technical champions along the way.

We are looking for high technical aptitude individuals with a deep sense of ownership and a desire to help customers ship solutions at production scale. Ideal candidates are deeply curious, capable of operating with confidence in ambiguous situations, and are extremely adaptable. 

The impact you will have:

• You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
• Drive technical discovery and solution design, focusing on winning competitive deals and accelerating time-to-value in strategic accounts.
• Continuously research & learn new technologies and their implementations on Databricks
• Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
• Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our customers
• Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.
• Work closely with account executives to create and execute account penetration strategies, focusing on winning technical decision-makers and building new customer champions.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with senior and executive stakeholders by articulating the business value of Databricks in clear, outcomes-driven terms.
  
  

What we look for:

• 5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
• Experience building distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Expertise in one of the following:
• Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence C/VP-level stakeholders and align technical solutions to strategic business priorities.
• Available to travel to customers in your region
• [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification
  
  

NOTE: If your experience isn’t a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you’re a good fit for the role, apply. We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.