Job Summary:
Databricks is the data and AI company that provides a unified analytics platform. The Sr. Solutions Engineer will lead the growth of the platform by partnering with customers, providing technical leadership, and consulting on big data architecture while building strong relationships.
Responsibilities:
• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
• 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
• Build and present references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
• Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Travel to customers in your region
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ 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
• Expertise in at least one of the following: Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS), Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
• Secret security clearance or willingness to obtain one
Preferred:
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
Company:
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.