Solutions Architect - Public Sector

P-959

While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role Washington DC Virginia and Maryland are the locations of focus for the team. We are considering other EST time zone locations for this position as well.

Mission

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a team we have expertise in cloud platforms data engineering data analytics and data science and machine learning. As a member of our team you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas using open-source projects such as Apache Spark MLflow and Delta Lake. This is a customer-facing role where you will work with customers your teammates the product team and our post-sales teams to identify use cases for Databricks develop architectures and solutions using our platform and guide customers through the implementation to accomplish value. In that process you will build relationships with our customers find and build champions and become a trusted advisor. You will report to the Field Engineering Manager for the team.

The impact you will have:

• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems

• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks

• Consult on big data architecture 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

• Build and present references architectures how-tos 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

• Travel to customers in your region

What we look for:

• 5+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales technical architecture or consulting role

• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems

• Comfortable programming in and debugging at least one of: Python Scala Java SQL or R

• Experience supporting Public Sector clients

• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS Azure or GCP

• Data Engineering technologies ( Ex: Spark Hadoop Kafka )

• Data Warehousing ( Ex: SQL OLTP/OLAP/DSS )

• [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science Applied Mathematics Operations Research)

• US Citizen