Solutions Architect - Strat Media

Databricks
Los Angeles
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 247,500 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Strategic thinking","Trusted advising"]

Lead end-to-end technical strategy for customer accounts, from discovery through production deployment and adoption growth. Run complex architecture discussions across data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics, acting as a trusted advisor to technical directors and architects. Differentiate Databricks in competitive scenarios, develop a domain specialization, orchestrate cross-functional resources, and provide structured feedback to influence product direction. Travel to customer sites as needed.

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Solutions Architect - Strat Media

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end technical strategy for customer accounts, from discovery through production deployment and adoption growth. Run complex architecture discussions across data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics, acting as a trusted advisor to technical directors and architects. Differentiate Databricks in competitive scenarios, develop a domain specialization, orchestrate cross-functional resources, and provide structured feedback to influence product direction. Travel to customer sites as needed.
Location: Los Angeles
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the end-to-end technical strategy for accounts, from initial discovery through production deployment and consumption growth.
  • •Lead complex architecture discussions for scalable, production-grade solutions across data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics.
  • •Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors.
  • •Drive technical wins in competitive scenarios by demonstrating Databricks differentiation through custom-built solutions.
  • •Develop and declare an emerging technical specialization (archetype) and orchestrate cross-functional resources (DSAs, SSAs, Partners) to deliver solutions.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 247,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role.
  • •Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL, demonstrated through live coding, debugging, and solution-building.
  • •Deep expertise in distributed data systems architecture, including scalable pipelines, streaming architectures, lakehouse patterns, and cloud-native data platforms.
  • •Proficiency with the Databricks Platform (or ability to achieve proficiency quickly) with a developing specialization (e.g., streaming, ML/AI, data governance, migrations).
  • •Experience leading architecture discussions with senior technical stakeholders, including whiteboarding and trade-off analysis.
Experience:6+ yearsData engineeringTechnical pre-sales
Education:Master's
Skills:CommunicationStrategic thinkingTrusted advising
Certifications:Data EngineerMLPlatform
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLDistributed data systemsStreaming architecturesLakehouse patternsCloud-native data platformsDatabricks PlatformAWSAzureGCPSnowflakeAzure SynapseReal-time/streamingML/AIData governanceMigrationsUnity CatalogLakehouseGenieLakeflow

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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