Infrastructure & Platform Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA)

Databricks
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Teaching","Lifelong learning","Collaboration","Mentoring"]

Serve as a trusted ML/AI expert for Databricks customers and Field Engineering, partnering with Solution Architects to design production-grade ML and AI applications on the Data Intelligence Platform. Lead architecture for end-to-end ML workloads, including training/inference optimization and MLOps lifecycle management. Drive enterprise GenAI solutions using RAG and agentic systems, provide technical support through the sales cycle (MVPs and deep dives), and influence the AI roadmap through cross-functional collaboration.

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Infrastructure & Platform Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA)

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Job Summary

Serve as a trusted ML/AI expert for Databricks customers and Field Engineering, partnering with Solution Architects to design production-grade ML and AI applications on the Data Intelligence Platform. Lead architecture for end-to-end ML workloads, including training/inference optimization and MLOps lifecycle management. Drive enterprise GenAI solutions using RAG and agentic systems, provide technical support through the sales cycle (MVPs and deep dives), and influence the AI roadmap through cross-functional collaboration.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and implement production-level ML and AI workloads, including end-to-end pipelines, training/inference optimization, and MLOps lifecycle management.
  • •Lead enterprise GenAI solutions using RAG architectures and agentic systems (tool-calling, multi-agent orchestration, guardrails) plus AI observability and natural language querying of structured data.
  • •Provide advanced technical support to Solution Architects during the technical sales cycle by building MVPs and leading deep-dive sessions aligned to customer business challenges.
  • •Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to represent the customer voice, define priorities, and influence the AI roadmap.
  • •Drive thought leadership and community adoption through technical tutorials/training and participation in industry conferences and hackathons.
Travel: Medium travel

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of hands-on industry DS/ML experience focused on ML engineering and/or data science/AI for LLMs and agentic systems.
  • •Hands-on experience building/maintaining production-grade cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) for deploying ML applications and monitoring model performance.
  • •Experience working with distributed Spark-based systems and familiarity with data engineering concepts.
  • •Pre-sales or post-sales experience with external clients; 5+ years of customer-facing experience preferred.
  • •Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (or equivalent practical experience) and ability to communicate and teach complex technical concepts.
Experience:10+ yearsData scienceMachine learningAILLMGenAICloudDistributed systems
Education:Master's in quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research)
Skills:CommunicationTeachingLifelong learningCollaborationMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSAzureGCPApache SparkDistributed SparkRAGAgentic systemsMulti-agent orchestrationVector databasesFine-tuningHuggingFaceLangChainMLOpsLLMOpsAI observabilityTool-callingGuardrailsCloud-native services

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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