Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect – Data &

AI (Presales) ​

At Databricks, our Solutions Architects combine customer engagement with hands-on technical

expertise.

You will work closely with customers to understand their challenges and demonstrate how the Databricks platform can

solve them – not just conceptually, but in practice.

This role sits within our sales organization and is ideal for someone

who enjoys working at the intersection of business, data, and AI — and who is motivated by turning ideas into working

solutions.

What you’ll do​

• Partner with Account Executives to drive technical sales cycles

and customer outcomes

• Lead customer workshops, discovery sessions, and technical deep-dives across multiple

stakeholders

• Build and deliver proof-of-concepts, demos, and solution prototypes using real data
• Translate

business requirements into practical, scalable data and AI solutions

• Act as a trusted advisor, while also being able to

go hands-on to validate solutions end-to-end

• Work through technical challenges with customers, iterating and resolving

issues as they arise

• Contribute reusable assets, patterns, and best practices that accelerate adoption across

customers

• Experience working with customers in a presales, consulting, or advisory capacity
• Ability to communicate complex

topics to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Comfortable leading discussions that connect business goals to

technical decisions

Hands-on technical foundation​

• Experience with Python (or

similar) and familiarity with distributed data processing and compute and working with large-scale datasets

• Understanding

of data pipelines and modern data architectures

• Ability to work practically with data (e.g. building PoCs, exploring

datasets, troubleshooting)

• Comfortable reasoning through code, explaining how it works, and adapting it when things don’t

behave as expected

Data & AI understanding​

• Familiarity with analytics, data

science, or machine learning workflows

• Understanding of how data platforms support AI use cases (e.g. feature pipelines,

model training, inference)

• Interest in modern AI capabilities, combined with an understanding of how they operate on real

data systems

Architecture & platform understanding​

• Familiarity with cloud

platforms and data technologies

• Ability to design solutions that consider scalability, performance, reliability, and data

volumes

• Awareness of trade-offs in architecture decisions and ability to adapt designs based on constraints

What makes you successful in this role​

• You are comfortable switching between business dialogue

and technical execution

• You don’t just describe solutions — you can build, validate, and iterate on them in practice

• You apply structured thinking in discovery and can connect requirements to scalable technical solutions
• You

understand that AI solutions depend on solid data foundations

• You are curious and continuously deepen your technical

expertise

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. To learn more, follow

Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

​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.

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.

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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.​