Senior Solutions Architect
Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Field Engineering - FE Direct Emerging · listed August 29, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Principal
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Hybrid
Requirements listed
8
Length
672 words
In the posting’s own words
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. You'll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems
What it asks for · 8
- 15+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
- 10+ years of experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others
- Strong consulting / customer facing experience , working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
- Coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark™ or Scala
- Experience building distributed data systems
- Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Available to travel to customers in your region
- Nice to have: Databricks Certification
What the job covers
- You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
- You will work directly with the sales team to develop your book of business, define account strategies, and execute those strategies to help your customers and prospects solve their business problems 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.
Tools and skills named
Data
- Databricks6×
- Spark5×
- Data warehouse
- Hadoop
Languages
- Java
- Python
- Scala
- SQL
Cloud & infra
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
Go to market
- Solutions architecture
Models & research
- Machine learning
Product & design
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- data16×
- customers9×
- data engineering5×
- data science5×
- solutions5×
- experience4×
- technical4×
- architectures3×
- big data3×
- develop3×
- field3×
- platform3×
- projects3×
- sales3×
- apache spark2×
- architect2×
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