Solutions Architect - Public Sector (sled)

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · TX · Remote · Field Engineering - FE Direct Regulated

Solutions Architect for Databricks, focusing on the Public Sector (SLED) in Texas. This role involves leading the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, partnering with sales, providing technical leadership, consulting on big data architecture, implementing proof of concepts for data science and ML projects, and building reference architectures. The role requires expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science/ML, utilizing open-source projects like Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake. It is a customer-facing role requiring travel and building customer relationships.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
  2. Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
  3. 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
  4. Build and present references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Scala
  • Java
  • SQL
  • R
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Spark
  • Hadoop
  • Kafka
  • SQL
  • OLTP/OLAP/DSS

Nice to have

  • Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
  • Data Engineering technologies
  • Data Warehousing