Databricks · 2 hours ago
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - AWS Partner Solution Architect
Portland, OR
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $275K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is the data and AI company that helps organizations unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. In this role, you will guide partners in understanding the Databricks platform and articulate integrations with AWS services to build big data solutions, while providing technical leadership and expertise.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Drive adoption and grow knowledge of Databricks products and accelerators on AWS by energizing the ecosystem of system integration partners, AWS technical field consultants, and Databricks direct field
Provide tutorials and training to improve partner community adoption (including workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations)
Translate field trends, AWS priorities, and Databricks product strategy into a cohesive story with clear call out for where we leverage both sides to build customer value in order to deliver that story
Provide technical leadership to guide strategic partners to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment
Demonstrate thought leadership and translate customer adoption patterns from the field to collaborate with product teams to consider integrations with AWS
Become a technical expert in an area such as the open Lakehouse, big data streaming, or data ingestion and workflows
Assist Solution Architects with aspects of the technical sale as they work alongside partners including customizing proof of concept content, and architectures
Contribute to the Databricks Community
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in at least one of the following on AWS: Software Engineering/Data Engineering, Data Applications Engineering, Data Science or Machine Learning Ops
Must be able to work collaboratively and independently to achieve outcomes supporting go-to-market priorities
Deep Specialty Expertise in at least one of the following areas: Expertise in data governance systems and solutions, Experience with high-performance, production data processing systems, Experience building large-scale real-time stream processing systems, Experience migrating and modernizing Hadoop jobs to public cloud data lake platforms, Expertise in cloud data formats like Delta and declarative ETL frameworks, Expertise in building GenAI solutions
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex needs
Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala, or Java
Experience with the AWS cloud
3+ years professional experience with Big Data technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and architectures
3+ years with system integration partner or customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role
Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire
Preferred
This role can be remote, but we prefer that you will be located in the job listing area (Seattle) and can travel up to 30% when needed
Benefits
Eligibility for annual performance bonus
Equity
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (385)
2024 (319)
2023 (227)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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