Sr. Solutions Engineer

As a Pre‑sales Sr Solutions Engineer (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud), you will guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands‑on environment throughout the sales process. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data‑driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise ecosystem.

You’ll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers’ biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems. You will report to the Field Engineering Manager.

• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
• You will lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
• You will support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how‑to’s, and demo applications
• You will help integrate Databricks with 3rd‑party applications to support customer architectures
• You will engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet‑ups
• You will partner with your Account Executive, and form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value

• Understanding of customer‑facing pre‑sales or consulting role
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and white‑boarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data technologies, preferably in Apache Spark™, Hadoop, DWH, BI, AI/ML, or Data Science
• Fluent coding experience in Python and implementing Apache Spark™ also desirable
• Written and verbal level fluency in Japanese

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.

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