Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality
Posted by employer 4 years ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Solutions Architect for Retail at Databricks focuses on guiding large enterprises through their data transformation journeys, ensuring the effective adoption of the company's products. The position requires a strong technical background in big data, data science, and cloud technologies, along with experience in pre-sales and value selling. Ideal candidates will have over five years of experience in the Retail and CPG sectors, with a proven ability to drive data-driven business change. The role also involves mentoring team members and collaborating closely with account executives to align technical strategies.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page November 2, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Sales/Marketing roles (median ~$142,000).
- Starts above 36% of 97 comparable senior sales/marketing roles in United States that list AI we track (median $150,000 across 37 companies). See AI salary trends
- AI appears in 8.4% of 1843 comparable senior sales/marketing roles in United States; Hadoop appears in 0.1% of 1843 comparable senior sales/marketing roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Databricks lists $139,900–$247,300 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Big Data, Cloud, Data Science, Hadoop, Java.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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We are looking for experienced pre-sales professionals who have a successful track record helping large enterprises become more data-driven. Working with the Account Executive (AE), the Travel & Hospitality within Retail SA defines and directs the technical strategy for our largest and important accounts, leading to more widespread use of our products and wider and deeper adoption of ML & AI. You will lean upon your solid background in value selling, technical account management and technical leadership to maximize success in these accounts. While you work with a team that includes hands-on resources who will build proofs of concept and demonstrate Databricks' products, you need to be technical and must understand the relevance and application of ML & AI within a range of use cases important to the target accounts in the Retail and CPG space.
The impact you will have:
- You will work with up to 9 clients as the main technical voice for Databricks
- You will lead your customers on a transformational journey, helping them to evaluate and adopt Databricks as part of their strategy
- You will implement the technical strategy in the account, in close understanding of the strategy
- Build a movement of technical champions within the account
- Align technical strategies around Databricks solutions
- You will provide structured mentorship for other team members
What we look for:
- 5+ years of experience working very large (> $1m ARR), from the Retail and CPG related space
- 3+ years working in a pre sales capacity or supporting sales activity
- Technical in big data, data science and cloud
- An ability in data-driven business transformation, and driving change with data
- 3+ years of experience with design and implementation experience in big data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP or full lifecycle data science solutions
- Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex customer needs
- Production programming experience in Python, R, Scala or Java
- Nice to have: Databricks Certification
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
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