Databricks · 18 hours ago
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering
Northeast - United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $275K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is the data and AI company that provides a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. The Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks, focusing on architectural design, data engineering, and model deployment while providing technical leadership and mentorship.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment
Architect production data pipelines, including end-to-end pipeline performance testing and optimization
Become a leading technical expert in areas such as data lake technology, big data streaming, or big data ingestion and workflows
Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)
Contribute to the Databricks Community
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in a technical role with expertise in at least one of the following: Software Engineer/Data Engineer: data ingestion, streaming technologies - such as Spark Streaming and Kafka, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions
Data Applications Engineer: Build use cases that use data - such as risk modeling, fraud detection, and customer life-time value. Experience with OLTP backends and full-stack data application development, including Streamlit, Dash, Gradio, or Node.js
Hands-on Solutions Architect in one of these areas, able to write/supervise production-grade code
Production experience with Apache Spark or Databricks
Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex needs
Production programming experience in Python or Scala/Java
Very comfortable with some flavor of SQL, whether SparkSQL, Postgres, or a Data Warehouse
Familiar with at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP
Deep Specialty Expertise in at least one of the following areas: Experience scaling big data workloads that are performant and cost-effective
Experience with Development Tools for CI/CD, Unit and Integration testing, Automation and Orchestration, REST API, BI tools and SQL Interfaces (e.g. Jenkins)
Experience designing data solutions on cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, using best practices in cloud security and networking
Experience implementing industry-specific data analytics use cases
Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
Ability to travel up to 30% when needed
Benefits
Eligibility for annual performance bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits and perks
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)
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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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