Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (federal Civilian)

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Washington, DC · Remote · Field Engineering - FE Direct Regulated

Solutions Architect role at Databricks focused on leading the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. This customer-facing role involves 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 also involves promoting open-source projects like Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake. Requires experience in distributed data systems, programming in Python/Scala/Java/R/SQL, and supporting Public Sector clients. Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Data Engineering technologies is expected.

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

  • 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
  • Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
  • Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
  • Experience supporting Public Sector clients
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • customer-facing
  • technical architecture
  • data science and machine learning projects
  • Public Sector clients