Senior Solutions Architect
Shape the future of Data & AI as a Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks, collaborating with top data teams in a hybrid role based in Mumbai.
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 15+ years
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks, the individual will engage with clients to implement data-driven solutions using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, acting as a technical advisor to both sales and product teams. Key skills include extensive experience with big data technologies like Apache Spark and proficiency in coding languages such as Python and Java. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over 15 years in data engineering or technical architecture, who possess strong consulting experience across various industries. The role also emphasizes collaboration with a team of Solutions Architects to drive customer success and innovation.
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- Listed 11 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Databricks's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior Solutions Architect role remote?
- It's hybrid — Databricks expects some on-site time in Mumbai, India.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 15 years of relevant experience for this Senior Solutions Architect role.
- Where is the role based?
- Databricks is hiring for this position in Mumbai, India.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Apache Spark, Big Data, Cassandra, Data Engineering, Data Science, Hadoop.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Solutions Architect role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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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
Reporting to the Field Engineering Leader, you will collaborate with our most strategic prospects and customers, work directly with product and engineering to drive the Databricks roadmap forward, and work with the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions along the way.
This is a Hybrid role, based in Mumbai.
The impact you will have:
- 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.
What we look for:
- 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
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
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