Sr. Solutions Architect

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Zürich, Switzerland · Field Engineering - Other

This role is for a Sr. Solutions Architect at Databricks, focusing on their Data Intelligence Platform for Financial Services customers in Zurich. The role involves developing customer engagement strategies, coaching junior architects, influencing stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor for data analytics architecture, and contributing to technical community engagement. It requires experience in technical pre-sales, influencing decision-makers, coding in a core language, and hands-on expertise with cloud platforms and proofs-of-concept. Experience in the regulated FSI vertical is an advantage.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop customer engagement strategies in partnership with Account Executive(s) in your designated territory.
  2. Coach junior Solutions Architects and teams on use case prioritization and building technical champions.
  3. You will influence stakeholders at all levels through complex engagements with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd-party applications, ensuring they are excited about the Databricks vision and solution strategy.
  4. Be a 'champion’ for both customers and colleagues, operating as an expert solutions architect and trusted advisor for significant data analytics architecture, design, and adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  5. Contribute to Databricks' technical community engagement by developing customer-facing collateral and leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.

Skills

Required

  • complex customer interactions
  • technical pre-sales capacity
  • influence decision-makers
  • coding in a core programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Scala)
  • basic Spark
  • complex proofs-of-concept
  • public cloud platforms
  • modern coding platform
  • technical solutions for specialized customer needs
  • navigate a competitive landscape
  • Fluent in English

Nice to have

  • Fluent in German
  • Prior expertise in the regulated FSI vertical

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated FSI vertical