Solutions Architect - Migration Specialist

While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations. #LI-REMOTE

As a Migration Specialist in our Field Engineering SA team, you will lead the customers on all aspects of sales and providing the right guidance for the post sales activities surrounding migrations. Specialist architects will support sales in a technical capacity and will be the champions in building migration architectures and working with ISV and SI partners.You will build technical tools that help migrations be more cost and time effective.

The impact you will have:

• You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help achieve their business problems.
• Guide customers on modern data architecture using data warehousing, data engineering, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
• Contribute to and lead the biggest migrations to Databricks with engineered automation
• Build and present references architectures and demo applications for customers
• Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars

What we look for:

• 5+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Expert level experience with SQL and database technologies
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, Scala, Java
• Experience building solutions on native services of major cloud platforms
• Expertise in at least one of the following:
• Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Experience developing solutions accelerators for platform migrations is a huge advantage
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) Plan
• Equity awards
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Family Planning
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental wellness resources