Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector; Federal Civilian

Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (Federal Civilian)

Washington, VA

Mission

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a team, we have expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science and machine learning. As a member of our team, you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake. This is a customer‑facing role, where you will work with customers, your teammates, the product team, and our post‑sales teams, to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through the implementation to accomplish value.

In that process, you will build relationships with our customers, find and build champions, and become a trusted advisor. You will report to the Field Engineering Manager for the team.

• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
• Consult on big data architecture, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other third‑party applications
• Build and present reference architectures, how‑tos, and demo applications for customers
• Become an expert in, and promote Databricks‑inspired open‑source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Travel to customers in your region

• 8+ years in a customer‑facing pre‑sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of:
  Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
• Experience supporting Public Sector clients
• Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
• US Citizen

Local Pay Range: $196,200—$274,650 USD

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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