Sr. Solutions Architect
Join Databricks as a Sr. Solutions Architect to lead technical strategies for major retail and CPG clients in a fully remote role.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 4 days ago
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Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Sr. Solutions Architect focuses on guiding major retail and CPG clients through their data transformation journeys, ensuring they effectively adopt Databricks' solutions. 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 eight years of experience in large enterprise environments, particularly in retail, and a proven ability to drive data-driven change. The role also involves mentoring team members and collaborating closely with account executives to align technical strategies.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 22, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page October 4, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 5 other locations at Databricks: Central - United States; Remote - Texas, Sydney, Australia, Singapore, Auckland, New Zealand, Milan, Italy.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Sales/Marketing roles (median ~$140,000).
- Starts above 70% of 40 comparable senior sales/marketing roles in United States that list Python we track (median $189,500 across 16 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 3.7% of 1604 comparable senior sales/marketing roles in United States; OLAP appears in 0.1% of 1604 comparable senior sales/marketing roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Sr. Solutions Architect role remote?
- Yes — Databricks lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Databricks lists $219,100–$301,300 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Sr. Solutions Architect role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Hadoop, Java, MPP, NoSQL, OLAP, OLTP.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sr. Solutions Architect role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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Location: Texas - Remote
Mission
We are looking for experienced pre-sales professionals who have a successful track record helping large enterprises become more data-driven. Working with the Enterprise Account Executive (AE), the Enterprise 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 High Tech and Manufacturing space.
Outcomes
- You work with multiple clients as the main technical voice for Databricks.
- You lead your customers on a transformational journey, helping them to evaluate and adopt Databricks as part of their strategy
- You implement the technical strategy in the account, in close understanding of the strategy.
- You build a movement of technical champions within the account.
- You align technical strategies around Databricks solutions.
- You provide structured mentorship for other team members.
- Gain the respect of your peers based on your experience, insight, and contributions.
Competencies:
- Proficiency at establishing virtual teams, and leading them to ultimate success within the account.
- Experience working very large (> $1m ARR), global accounts.
- Form relationships with executives and influencers.
- Present a convincing point-of-view to important decision-makers that leads them down a path of success.
- Technical in big data, data science and cloud.
- An ability in data-driven business transformation, and driving change with data.
- 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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