Solutions Architect (pre-sales) - Digital Native

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Tokyo, Japan · Field Engineering - Other

Pre-sales Solutions Architect for Databricks' Lakehouse Platform, focusing on Analytics, AI, Big Data, and Public Cloud within the Digital Native sector. The role involves guiding technical evaluations, acting as a technical advisor to sales, advocating for customers to product teams, and helping clients achieve data-driven outcomes by integrating Databricks into their enterprise ecosystems. Responsibilities include architectural expertise, leading prospect evaluations, authoring reference architectures, integrating third-party applications, and engaging with the technical community through workshops and seminars. Requires pre-sales or post-sales experience, understanding of customer-facing roles with strengths in Data Engineering or Data Science, experience with public cloud architectures, Big Data technologies (including Spark, AI, Data Engineering), and fluent coding in Python or Scala. Fluency in Japanese and English is also required.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
  2. Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
  3. Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
  4. Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
  5. Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups

Skills

Required

  • Pre-sales or post-sales experience
  • External client engagement
  • Data Engineering or Data Science knowledge
  • Technical concept demonstration
  • Presentation and whiteboarding skills
  • Public cloud architecture design (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Big Data technologies (Spark, AI, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra)
  • Python or Scala coding
  • Enterprise Account experience
  • Japanese fluency
  • English fluency

Nice to have

  • Apache Spark™
  • Java
  • R

What the JD emphasized

  • Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
  • Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous
  • Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
  • Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
  • Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
  • Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
  • Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English