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Senior Solutions Architect

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-02 Bengaluru, India Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

₹600,000–₹1,000,000/mo (₹7,200,000–₹12,000,000/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 Catal.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with sophisticated data engineering and data science teams.
  • Act as a technical advisor internally to the sales team.
  • Work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the 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.
  • Collaborate with strategic prospects and customers.
  • Work directly with product and engineering to drive the Databricks roadmap forward.
  • Work with the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using the platform.
  • Guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation.
  • Develop technical champions.
  • Partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can solve their business problems.
  • Work directly with the sales team to develop your book of business, define account strategies, and execute those strategies.
  • Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows.
  • Validate integrations with cloud services, homegrown tools, and other 3rd party applications.
  • Collaborate with fellow Solutions Architects, using skills to support each other and 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

  • 15+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role.
  • 10+ years of experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark , AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
  • Strong consulting / customer-facing experience, working with external clients across a variety of industry markets.
  • Coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark or Scala.
  • Experience building distributed data systems.
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Available to travel to customers in your region.
  • Databricks Certification (nice to have).