Databricks · 15 hours ago
Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise (Startups)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $247K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is the data and AI company, and they are seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the adoption of their Unified Analytics Platform. In this customer-facing role, you will provide technical leadership, consult on big data architecture, and build solutions that deliver strategic business value.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataInformation TechnologyAnalyticsData IntegrationData ManagementData StorageMachine Learning
Responsibilities
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%, of which 80%+ local to your region)
Qualification
Required
5+ 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
Benefits
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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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$27.25BKey Investors
JP Morgan ChaseFidelity,Insight Partners,J.P. Morgan Asset ManagementAndreessen Horowitz,Insight Partners,MGX,Thrive Capital,WCM Investment Management
2026-02-09Debt Financing· $2B
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $5B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
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