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Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Warehousing

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-26 United States Hybrid ICT

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● Own the end-to-end technical strategy for your accounts, from discovery through production deployment and consumption growth
● Lead complex architecture discussions - designing scalable, production-grade solutions spanning data engineering 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 - becoming a go-to resource for your team in that domain
● Orchestrate cross-functional resources to deliver comprehensive solutions for complex customer needs
● Influence product direction by providing structured feedback on customer requirements and competitive gaps

● Have 6+ years in solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role
● Have deep hands-on experience with Apache Spark ecosystem, message queues, batch ingestion, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex Spark workloads
● Have experience building or supporting data-driven use cases, predictive analytics pipelines, or customer analytics platforms
● Have experience migrating EDW workloads across OLAP/OLTP systems, advanced query tuning, governance, and MPP debugging
● Have strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL
● Have deep expertise in distributed data systems architecture, designing scalable pipelines, streaming architectures, lakehouse patterns, and cloud-native data platforms
● Be proficient on the Databricks Platform or have demonstrated ability to achieve proficiency rapidly
● Have a developing technical specialization in one area, such as real-time/streaming, ML/AI, data governance, migrations
● Have proven ability to lead architecture discussions with senior technical stakeholders
● Have experience with production deployments on public cloud, including infrastructure