Databricks

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is the data and AI company, trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide. The Solutions Architect role involves leading the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, providing technical leadership, and consulting on big data architecture while building relationships with customers. Responsibilities • Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from 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 reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers • Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues • Become an expert in, and evangelize Databricks driven open-source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars • Use your strengths to help your fellow SA's, and drive cross-functional relationships across the company • Travel to customers (up to 30%, of which 80%+ local to your region) Skills • 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 • Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP • Experience in at least one of the following: Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS), Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, HPO) • Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.) • Nice to have: Databricks Certification Benefits • Annual performance bonus • Equity Company Overview • Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.databricks.com. Company H1B Sponsorship • Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 318 in 2025, 319 in 2024, 227 in 2023, 222 in 2022, 166 in 2021, 64 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.