Solutions architect - public sector (sled)

FEQ227R359 Mission Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a team, we have expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science and machine learning. As a member of our team, you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas, using open‑source projects such as Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake. This is a customer‑facing role, where you will work with customers, your teammates, the product team, and our post‑sales teams, to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through the implementation, to accomplish value.
In that process, you will build relationships with our customers, find and build champions, and become a trusted advisor. You will report to the Field Engineering Manager for the team.
Responsibilities Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt 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 third‑party applications
Build and present reference architectures, how‑tos, and demo applications for customers
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
Travel to customers in your region
Qualifications 6+ 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
Experience supporting Public Sector clients
Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research) – desired
US Citizen
Benefits Pay Range – Local: $180,000 — $247,500 USD
Eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices

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