Specialist Solutions Architect
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Joblaze summary
In the role of Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks, the individual will engage directly with customers to design and implement big data solutions, leveraging their expertise in technologies like Apache Spark. Key skills include hands-on experience with data management, cloud platforms, and programming languages such as Python or Scala, alongside a strong understanding of machine learning concepts. This position is ideal for professionals with a technical background in data engineering or data science, particularly those who thrive in customer-facing environments. The role also offers opportunities for mentorship and specialization within a dynamic team committed to advancing data so
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Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, OLTP, MPP, Java, Hadoop, Apache Spark.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Specialist Solutions Architect role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. These are customer-facing roles, working with and supporting the Solution Architects, requiring hands-on production experience with Apache Spark™ and expertise in other data technologies. SSAs help customers through design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for expanding the usage of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Director of Field Engineering, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in an area of specialty - whether that be performance tuning, machine learning, industry expertise, or more.
The impact you will have:
- Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment
- Architect production level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimisation
- Provide technical expertise in an area such as data management, cloud platforms, data science, machine learning, or architecture
- Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
- Improve community adoption (through tutorials, training, hackathons, conference presentations)
- Contribute to the Databricks Community
What we look for:
- You will have experience in a customer-facing technical role with expertise in at least one of the following:
- Software Engineer/Data Engineer: query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions.
- Data Scientist/ML Engineer: model selection, model lifecycle, hyper parameter tuning, model serving, deep learning.
- Data Applications Engineer: Build use cases that use data - such as risk modelling, fraud detection, customer life-time value.
- Experience with design and implementation of big data technologies such as Spark/Delta, Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP.
- Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex needs.
- Production programming experience in Python, R, Scala or Java
- Deep Specialty Expertise in at least one of the following areas:
- Experience scaling big data workloads that are performant and cost-effective.
- Experience with Development Tools for CI/CD, Unit and Integration testing, Automation and Orchestration, REST API, BI tools and SQL Interfaces.
- Experience designing data solutions on cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP using best practices in cloud security and networking.
- Experience with ML concepts covering Model Tracking, Model Serving and other aspects of productionizing ML pipelines in distributed data processing environments like Apache Spark, using tools like MLflow.
- Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
- Native level Korean is required and Business level English is a plus
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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