Solutions Architect - Montreal

Databricks • Montreal, QC

19d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Solutions Architect at Databricks within the Field Engineering org, you will partner with customers to design scalable data architectures using Databricks technology and services. You are expected to have technical depth and business knowledge to drive complex technology discussions, expressing the value of the Databricks platform throughout the sales lifecycle. In collaboration with Account Executives, you will engage with customers' technical leads, including architects, engineers, and operations teams, aiming to become a trusted advisor and achieve tangible outcomes. You will also work with various teams across Databricks and executive leadership to represent customer needs and build valuable customer engagements, reporting to the Field Engineering Manager.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role with expertise in at least one of the following technologies: Big data engineering (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), Data Warehousing & ETL (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS), Data Science and Machine Learning (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, HPO), Data Applications (Ex: Logs Analysis, Threat Detection, Real-time Systems Monitoring, Risk Analysis and more)
• Experience translating a customer's business needs to technology solutions, including establishing buy-in with essential customer stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• Experienced at designing, architecting, and presenting data systems for customers and managing the delivery of production solutions of those data architectures.
• Fluent in SQL and database technology.
• Debug and development experience in at least one of the following languages: Python, Scala, Java, or R.
• Travel to customers in your region up to 30% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

Responsibilities

• Work with Sales and other essential partners to develop account strategies for assigned accounts to grow their usage of the platform.
• Establish the Databricks Lakehouse architecture as the standard data architecture for customers through excellent technical account planning.
• Build and present reference architectures and demo applications for prospects to help them understand how Databricks can be used to achieve their goals to land new users and use cases.
• Capture the technical win by consulting on big data architectures, data engineering pipelines, and data science/machine learning projects; prove out the Databricks technology for strategic customer projects; and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications.
• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees