About this role
Job title: Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (SLED) Illinois; Michigan; Minnesota
About the Role Databricks Mission Solutions Architects lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. This customer-facing role partners with customers to identify use cases, develop architectures, and guide implementation, building trusted advisor relationships and champion networks. You will report to the Field Engineering Manager for the team.
What You'll Do
- 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 proofs 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 (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
- Travel to customers in your region
What We're Looking For
- 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)
- Desired Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
- US Citizenship
Compensation & Benefits
- Local Pay Range: $219,100—$301,300 USD
- The total compensation package may include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.