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Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Retail/CPG

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 Tokyo, Japan Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

₹1,000,000–₹1,800,000/mo (₹12,000,000–₹21,600,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide - including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.

Responsibilities

  • Guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands-on environment throughout the sales process.
  • Be a technical advisor internally to the sales team.
  • Work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the Retail/CPG field.
  • Help customers achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
  • Help data teams complete projects and integrate the platform into their enterprise Ecosystem.
  • Find solutions to customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems.
  • Be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design.
  • Lead prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks.
  • Support customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.
  • Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures.
  • Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups.
  • Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value, together with your Account Executive.

Requirements

  • Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets.
  • Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science is advantageous.
  • Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding.
  • Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP).
  • Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark , AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
  • Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark .
  • Java and R coding experience is also desirable.
  • Experience working with Enterprise Accounts.
  • Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.