Sr. Solutions Engineer

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Queensland, Australia · Field Engineering - Other

This role is for a Sr. Solutions Engineer at Databricks, focusing on demonstrating the company's Data Intelligence Platform to clients. The role involves building client relationships, providing technical value, integrating with the cloud ecosystem, contributing to the technical community, and acting as a Big Data Analytics advisor. Responsibilities include authoring reference architectures and demo applications, with a path to becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect. The ideal candidate has client-facing experience, can deliver technical propositions, identify pain points, and has coding skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with knowledge in Big Data Analytics and public cloud platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value in collaboration with an Account Executive and a Senior Solutions Architect.
  2. Gain excitement from clients about Databricks through hands-on evaluation and Spark programming, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications.
  3. Contribute to building the Databricks technical community through engagement at workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
  4. Become a Big Data Analytics advisor on aspects of architecture and design.
  5. Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.

Skills

Required

  • Familiarity working with clients, creating a narrative, answering customer questions, aligning the agenda with important interests, and achieving tangible outcomes.
  • Ability to independently deliver a technical proposition, identify customers' pain-points, and explain important areas for business value to develop a trusted advisor skillset.
  • Code in a core programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Knowledgeable in a core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform.
  • Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design.

What the JD emphasized

  • independent delivery of a technical proposition
  • identify customers' pain-points
  • explain important areas for business value
  • develop a trusted advisor skillset