Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Field Engineering - Other

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect (ML & AI) at Databricks, focusing on guiding enterprise customers in architecting production-grade ML and AI applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Responsibilities include designing end-to-end pipelines, optimizing training/inference, leading GenAI solutions (RAG, agents, observability), and influencing the AI roadmap.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement production-level ML and AI workloads, including end-to-end pipelines, training/inference optimization, MLOps lifecycle management, and integration with cloud-native services.
  2. Serve as a practitioner for enterprise GenAI solutions, specializing in RAG architectures, agentic systems (including tool-calling, multi-agent orchestration, and guardrails), AI observability, and natural language querying of structured data.
  3. Provide advanced technical support to Solution Architects during the technical sales cycle by building MVPs, leading deep-dive sessions, and aligning AI solutions with complex customer business challenges.
  4. Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to represent the voice of the customer, define priorities, and influence the platform’s AI roadmap.
  5. Drive community growth and AI platform adoption through the creation of technical tutorials and training materials, as well as by presenting at industry conferences and leading hackathons.

Skills

Required

  • Machine Learning
  • AI
  • LLM
  • GenAI
  • Data Science
  • Distributed Spark based systems
  • data engineering concepts
  • customer-facing experience
  • technical training
  • complex technical concepts communication

Nice to have

  • Apache Spark™
  • MLOps
  • LLMOps
  • RAG architectures
  • agentic systems
  • tool-calling
  • multi-agent orchestration
  • guardrails
  • AI observability
  • natural language querying of structured data

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of hands-on industry DS/ML experience
  • customer-facing experience

Other signals

  • Architecting production-grade ML and AI applications
  • Serve as a practitioner for enterprise GenAI solutions
  • Partner with Solution Architects to guide enterprise and strategic customers