Solutions Architect

Databricks

FEQ327R358 As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Engineering and Warehousing, you will guide customers through cloud data engineering transformations across a wide variety of use cases. In this customer-facing role, you will collaborate with and support Solutions Architects. This requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data engineering technologies and lakehouse architecture. The SSA teams help customers navigate evaluations and successfully plan production for their business intelligence workloads while aligning their technical roadmap with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, continuous learning, and internal training programs. In this role, you will establish yourself as a leader in the data engineering and warehousing specialty. The impact you will have: * Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects and large-scale data warehousing workloads. * Prove the value of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for customer workloads by architecting production workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization. * Architect production-level data pipelines, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization. * Become a technical expert in an area such as data lake technology, big data streaming, or big data ingestion and workflows. * Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale, including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures. * Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations). * Contribute to the Databricks Community. What we look for: * 8+ years of experience in a technical role with deep expertise across the following areas: * Software / Data Engineering: Hands-on experience with data ingestion, streaming technologies (e.g., Spark Streaming, Kafka), performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions. * Data Applications Engineering: Experience building data-driven use cases, such as risk modeling, fraud detection, and customer lifetime value (LTV). * Data Warehousing: Advanced query tuning, troubleshooting, data governance, and debugging MPP data warehouses or big data solutions. Experience migrating workloads from EDW systems (e.g., traditional SQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Synapse, EMR) across OLAP & OLTP workloads. * Data Observability: Experience with SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel), telemetry/high-velocity log ingestion, and anomaly detection. * Proven track record of maintaining, scaling, and extending production data systems to evolve with complex business needs. * Deep expertise across multiple core data engineering domains, including: * Designing and scaling cost-efficient, high-performance data workloads (ETL/ELT, analytics) in cloud environments. * Building and migrating large-scale data pipelines, including batch, CDC (Change Data Capture), and streaming ingestion. * Migrating on-premises or Hadoop-based data systems to modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). * Developing and managing modern lakehouse and warehouse systems, including Delta Lake technologies, data modeling, governance, and BI integration. * Production programming experience in SQL and at least one of the following: Python, Scala, or Java. * Strong familiarity with cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is highly desirable. * Degree or Equivalent: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. * 3+ years of customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role. * Ability to meet expectations for technical training and role-specific milestones within 6 months of hire. * Willingness to travel up to 30% as needed. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Databricks

FEQ327R322 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. You will be an essential part of this mission, using your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges. You'll work with a collaborative, customer-focused team that values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customized solutions to help our customers achieve their goals and guide their businesses forward. Join us in our quest to change how people work with data and make a better world! This is a hybrid role based in Sydney.  The impact you will have:  * Develop customer engagement strategies in partnership with Account Executive(s) in your designated territory. * Coach junior Solutions Architects and teams on use case prioritization and building technical champions. * You will influence stakeholders at all levels through complex engagements with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications, ensuring they are excited by the Databricks vision and solution strategy. * Be a 'champion’ for both customers and colleagues, operating as an expert solution architect and trusted advisor for significant data analytics architecture, design, and adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. * Contribute to Databricks' technical community engagement by developing customer-facing collateral and leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups. * Opportunity to continue your development in one of four tracks - technical specialization, industry vertical thought leadership, strategic customer vision, and people management. What we look for: * Know how to engage in complex customer interactions and sales lifecycle in a technical pre-sales capacity. * Ability to influence decision-makers and C-level executives by developing relationships and orchestrating teams to achieve long-term customer success. * Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, Java, Scala) and willingness to learn a base level of Spark. * Hands-on expertise with complex proofs-of-concept and public cloud platform(s). * Know how to provide technical solutions for specialized customer needs and navigate a competitive landscape. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Qube Research & Technologies

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. Your future role within QRT The successful candidate will join the global infrastructure team at QRT. You will be responsible for architecting, engineering and subsequent delivery oversight across all aspects of the QRT network estate but with particular focus on our colocation infrastructure. The trading infrastructure is a combination of wide area connectivity and ultra-low latency trading infrastructures.  The team will deliver network solutions which enable full lifecycle management (architect, design, build, operate, retire) for our network components across core network switching, firewalls, load balancers, instrumentation/telemetry, network CMDB, and automation. It is crucial that any candidates must be able to demonstrate delivery of complex networks, at scale, which have been delivered through a software and automation-driven mindset.  You will have deep knowledge of high-performance networking, including detailed knowledge of the product capabilities and roadmaps from the likes of Cisco, Arista and Fortinet. You will have direct experience of delivering and managing network solutions supporting corporate infrastructure and exchange specific ultra-low latency infrastructure with associated automation, telemetry and instrumentation frameworks.  Your present skillset * As a senior network engineer, you will partner closely with the project management teams and work in a highly collaborative manner within the network team and the wider organisation  * You will be member of an existing engineering team where you have direct responsibility and accountability for a complex and high-performance network infrastructures  * You will be able to demonstrate expert knowledge of delivering complex network architectures delivered via software driven and agile methodology  * You will have deep knowledge of delivering networks supporting high-performance and low latency computing architectures  * You will have deep knowledge of the network vendor ecosystem and be able to demonstrate building engineering relationships at senior layers with vendor product and engineering teams  * You will stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the network infrastructure remains cutting-edge  * You will have knowledge of wide area network engineering focused on traffic prioritisation and steering.  It would be good to have experience of Segment Routing.    QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.