Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect

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Specialist Solutions Architect - AWS Partner Solution Architect
Specialist Solutions Architect - AWS Partner Solution Architect role at Databricks
As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Intelligence Platform, you will guide partners in understanding our platform and articulate integrations with AWS native services to build big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a partner-facing role, working with and supporting our field Solution Architects and partner teams, that requires hands-on production experience with AWS, SQL, Apache Spark and expertise in other data technologies. SSAs help partners build capabilities for design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for expanding the usage of the Databricks Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Field Engineering Leadership, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in an area of specialty - whether that be data governance, data science, machine learning, streaming, performance tuning, industry expertise, or more.
Drive adoption and grow knowledge of Databricks products and accelerators on AWS by energizing the ecosystem of system integration partners, AWS technical field consultants, and Databricks direct field
Provide tutorials and training to improve partner community adoption (including workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations)
Translate field trends, AWS priorities, and Databricks product strategy into a cohesive story with clear call out for where we leverage both sides to build customer value in order to deliver that story
Provide technical leadership to guide strategic partners to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment
Demonstrate thought leadership and translate customer adoption patterns from the field to collaborate with product teams to consider integrations with AWS
Become a technical expert in an area such as the open Lakehouse, big data streaming, or data ingestion and workflows
Assist Solution Architects with aspects of the technical sale as they work alongside partners including customizing proof of concept content, and architectures
Contribute to the Databricks Community
5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in at least one of the following on AWS:
~ Software Engineering/Data Engineering: data ingestion, streaming technologies - such as Spark Streaming and Kafka, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions.
~ Data Applications Engineering: Build use cases that use data - such as risk modeling, fraud detection, partner life-time value.
~ Data Science or Machine Learning Ops: Design and build of production infrastructure, model management, and deployment of advanced analytics
~ Must be able to work collaboratively and independently to achieve outcomes supporting go-to-market priorities and have the interpersonal savvy to influence both partners and internal stakeholders without direct authority
Expertise in data governance systems and solutions that may span technologies such as Unity Catalog, Alation, Collibra, Purview, etc.
Experience with high-performance, production data processing systems (batch and streaming) on distributed infrastructure.
Experience building large-scale real-time stream processing systems; expertise in high-volume, high-velocity data ingestion, change data capture, data replication, and data integration technologies.
Experience migrating and modernizing Hadoop jobs to public cloud data lake platforms, including data lake modeling and cost optimization.
Expertise in cloud data formats like Delta and declarative ETL frameworks like DLT.
Expertise in building GenAI solutions such as RAG, Finetuning, or Pre-training for custom model creation.
~ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience.
~ Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex needs.
~ Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala, or Java.
~ Experience with the AWS cloud.
~3+ years professional experience with Big Data technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and architectures
~3+ years with system integration partner or customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role (consultant working for a partner)
~ Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire
~ This role can be remote, but we prefer that you will be located in the job listing area (Seattle) and can travel up to 30% when needed.

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide including Comcast, Cond 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.
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. 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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Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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