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Solutions Architect - Media

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-24 Los Angeles, California Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

₹14,000–₹22,000/mo (₹168,000–₹264,000/yr)

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

About the Company

At Databricks, our core principles are at the heart of everything we do; creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer-centric mindset guides us to create a unified platform that makes data science and analytics accessible to everyone. We aim to inspire our customers to make informed decisions that push their business forward. We provide a user-friendly and intuitive platform that makes it easy to turn insights into action and fosters a culture of creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Independently lead technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations
  • Code, architect, and present-combining technical depth with customer-facing skills to drive Databricks adoption
  • Own frontline customer relationships and work with your Account Executive to develop technical strategies that expand platform usage
  • Independently lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads spanning data engineering, analytics, and machine learning
  • Build and deliver compelling proofs-of-concept and live demos on the Databricks Platform that drive technical wins
  • Own frontline technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads
  • Develop account-level technical strategies in partnership with your Account Executive to grow platform consumption
  • Navigate competitive landscapes by articulating Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations
  • Contribute reusable technical assets (notebooks, solution accelerators, reference architectures) to the broader SA community

Requirements

  • 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a hands-on consulting role
  • Proficient in Python and SQL with demonstrated ability to debug, optimize, and write production-quality code - live coding is a required interview stage
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing data solutions on at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Working knowledge of distributed data systems: Apache Spark , Delta Lake, or equivalent (Hadoop, Kafka, Flink)
  • Experience leading technical customer conversations - discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews
  • Familiarity with one or more: data engineering (ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, streaming), data science/ML (model training, MLOps), or SQL analytics
  • Strong presentation and demo skills - you will build and present a live solution during the interview
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience)
  • Databricks certification or experience with the Databricks Platform
  • Experience with Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, or MLflow