Solutions Architect

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Denmark · Field Engineering - Other

Solutions Architect role focused on driving technical sales cycles for Databricks' Data & AI platform. The role involves understanding customer challenges, demonstrating the platform's capabilities, building proof-of-concepts, and translating business requirements into practical, scalable data and AI solutions. It sits within the sales organization and requires a blend of customer engagement and hands-on technical expertise.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Account Executives to drive technical sales cycles and customer outcomes
  2. Lead customer workshops, discovery sessions, and technical deep-dives across multiple stakeholders
  3. Build and deliver proof-of-concepts, demos, and solution prototypes using real data
  4. Translate business requirements into practical, scalable data and AI solutions
  5. Act as a trusted advisor, while also being able to go hands-on to validate solutions end-to-end

Skills

Required

  • Python (or similar)
  • distributed data processing
  • compute
  • large-scale datasets
  • data pipelines
  • modern data architectures
  • building PoCs
  • exploring datasets
  • troubleshooting
  • reasoning through code
  • analytics
  • data science
  • machine learning workflows
  • data platforms support AI use cases
  • feature pipelines
  • model training
  • inference
  • modern AI capabilities
  • cloud platforms
  • data technologies
  • design solutions
  • scalability
  • performance
  • reliability
  • data volumes
  • architecture decisions
  • constraints

Nice to have

  • presales
  • consulting
  • advisory capacity
  • communicate complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • leading discussions that connect business goals to technical decisions

What the JD emphasized

  • requires you to be based in Denmark
  • customer engagement
  • hands-on technical expertise
  • work closely with customers
  • understand their challenges
  • demonstrate how the Databricks platform can solve them
  • not just conceptually, but in practice
  • intersection of business, data, and AI
  • motivated by turning ideas into working solutions
  • drive technical sales cycles
  • customer outcomes
  • Lead customer workshops
  • discovery sessions
  • technical deep-dives
  • multiple stakeholders
  • Build and deliver proof-of-concepts
  • demos
  • solution prototypes
  • real data
  • Translate business requirements
  • practical, scalable data and AI solutions
  • trusted advisor
  • go hands-on to validate solutions end-to-end
  • Work through technical challenges
  • iterating and resolving issues
  • Contribute reusable assets
  • patterns
  • best practices
  • accelerate adoption
  • customers
  • Customer-facing mindset
  • Experience working with customers
  • presales
  • consulting
  • advisory capacity
  • communicate complex topics
  • technical and non-technical audiences
  • Comfortable leading discussions
  • connect business goals to technical decisions
  • Hands-on technical foundation
  • Experience with Python
  • distributed data processing
  • compute
  • working with large-scale datasets
  • Understanding of data pipelines
  • modern data architectures
  • Ability to work practically with data
  • building PoCs
  • exploring datasets
  • troubleshooting
  • Comfortable reasoning through code
  • explaining how it works
  • adapting it when things don’t behave as expected
  • Data & AI understanding
  • Familiarity with analytics
  • data science
  • machine learning workflows
  • Understanding of how data platforms support AI use cases
  • feature pipelines
  • model training
  • inference
  • Interest in modern AI capabilities
  • understanding of how they operate on real data systems
  • Architecture & platform understanding
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms
  • data technologies
  • Ability to design solutions
  • scalability
  • performance
  • reliability
  • data volumes
  • Awareness of trade-offs
  • architecture decisions
  • adapt designs
  • constraints
  • What makes you successful in this role
  • comfortable switching between business dialogue and technical execution
  • don’t just describe solutions
  • can build
  • validate
  • iterate on them in practice
  • take ownership of technical challenges
  • push problems forward
  • things are not working as expected
  • apply structured thinking in discovery
  • connect requirements to scalable technical solutions
  • understand that AI solutions depend on solid data foundations
  • curious
  • continuously deepen your technical expertise

Other signals

  • customer-facing
  • technical sales
  • demonstrate Databricks platform
  • translate business requirements into AI solutions
  • build and deliver proof-of-concepts