Senior Solutions Architect – Large Retail Account

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Databricks

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.6G Series H on 2021-08

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

Databricks is a data and AI company that provides a unified platform for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics. It focuses on optimizing big data processing and helps organizations leverage Apache Spark to deliver deeper insights and powerful data-driven applications. Databricks also offers robust tools and seamless integration for machine learning operations.

📋 Description

• Engage with some of Databricks’s largest and most complex customers across the UK & Ireland, defining their technical strategies and supporting them in adopting Databricks to achieve their business objectives. • Collaborate with Databricks leadership, account teams and field engineers to define and execute customer engagement strategies. • Demonstrate our Builder Culture to the highest standards, putting our principle of “show, not tell” into practice, supported by the full breadth of the latest in AI tooling and processes, to inspire customers and Bricksters on the art of the possible. • Coach junior Solutions Architects and teams on use case prioritisation and building technical champions. • Influence stakeholders at all organisational levels through complex engagements with the broader cloud ecosystem and third-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 Lakehouse 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 specialisation, industry vertical thought leadership, strategic customer vision, and people management.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience in technical pre-sales or consultancy, with a strong background in Data Science - traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence or Generative AI. • Demonstrated ability to architect end-to-end Data & AI solutions, with specific expertise in modern Generative AI concepts (e.g., fine-tuning, RAG, MLOps for LLMs), using either open source and/or ISV tools such as Dataiku, Domino, DataRobot etc. • Hands-on experience and enthusiasm for building with AI-based development tooling such as Genie Code, Claude Code, Cursor etc. • Strong proficiency in a core programming language (e.g., Python, SQL) and a willingness to learn (or existing knowledge of) Spark. • Proficiency with big data analytics technologies and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). • Hands-on expertise in designing and delivering complex proofs-of-concept (PoCs). • Proven ability to engage with customers in a technical sales capacity: challenging assumptions, guiding discussions to clear outcomes, and communicating both technical and business value propositions. • Experience in the full pre-sales lifecycle, including use case discovery, solution scoping, and delivering complex solution architecture designs to diverse audiences (from engineers to executives). • A customer-centric mindset with a passion for building client relationships and internal partnerships with account teams. • Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring junior team members to help them develop their technical and customer-facing skills. • Ability to commute to the London office regularly. • Willingness and ability to travel approximately 20-30% of the time across UK&I and EMEA for customer visits.

🏖️ 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.