Sr. Resident Solutions Architect

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · New York, NY · Remote · Field Engineering - BIF

This role is for a Sr. Resident Solutions Architect on the Professional Services team, focusing on helping clients with big data challenges using the Databricks platform. Responsibilities include data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects, integrating with client systems, and providing technical guidance for customer engagements. The role involves designing and building reference architectures, productionalizing use cases, and consulting on architecture and design for big data and AI applications. While the company is in the AI space and the role touches on AI applications, the core function is big data solutions architecture and professional services, not direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases
  2. Work with engagement managers to scope variety of professional services work with input from the customer
  3. Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
  4. Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
  5. Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
  • Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala
  • Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
  • Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals
  • Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
  • Working knowledge of MLOps
  • Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures
  • Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
  • Documentation and white-boarding skills.
  • Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.

Nice to have

  • Databricks Certification

What the JD emphasized

  • big data challenges
  • big data projects
  • big data and AI applications