Solutions Architect, Hunter – Digital Native Business

Databricks

Solutions Architect providing technical leadership in big data solutions for customers at Databricks. Collaborating with sales and engineers to implement innovative data strategies.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oregon, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $247,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopKafkaPandasPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSparkSQLTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
Work directly with prospective, greenfield customers on their 0 to 1 journey with Databricks
Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows
Collaborate with fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
Experience building distributed data systems at scale
Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
Experience using agentic coding harnesses and demonstrable experience scaling your work leveraging them
Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Expertise in Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) or Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
Available to travel to customers in your region
[Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
Nice to have: Databricks Certification

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits and perks
Annual performance bonus eligibility
Equity opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLBig Data architecturesdata engineeringdata sciencemachine learningSparkHadoopKafkapandas

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationconsultingproblem-solvingcommunication

Certifications

Databricks Certification