Sr. Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality
Join Databricks as a Sr. Solutions Architect to lead technical strategies for major retail and CPG clients in a fully remote role.
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Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
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.
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Quick facts
- Is the Sr. Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality 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 - Retail, Travel & Hospitality 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 - Retail, Travel & Hospitality role at Databricks.
From the original posting
We are looking for experienced pre-sales professionals with a proven track record of helping large enterprises become more data-driven. Working with the Account Executive (AE), the Retail and CPG Sr. SA defines and directs the technical strategy for our largest and most 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 1-5 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, with a 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:
- 8+ years of experience working in very large (> $1m ARR), from the Retail and CPG-related space
- 4+ 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
- 4+ 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
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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.
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.
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