Lead Specialist Solutions Architect

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As a Product Specialist - Builder Team, you will build, maintain, and support projects that integrate and extend the Databricks platform to democratize data and AI use cases faster.  In this role, you will advance the roadmap for specific priority projects the team develops and evaluate partner solutions.  In addition, you will support the infrastructure to maintain Databricks Labs, which enables all field engineering to contribute to tooling efforts.  A successful candidate in this role will have strong customer empathy, product focus - the ability to define what a customer needs from a tooling solution, and a data-driven mindset to maximize the impact of our tools.  You should feel comfortable working with partners, customers, and internal stakeholders to make sure our tooling continues to evolve.   You will report to Guenia Izquierdo, the Product Specialist Leader - Builder Team as part of the Field Engineering Scale organization.   

The impact you will have:

• Build, debug, and extend multiple internal and public infrastructure components of the Databricks Labs ecosystem
• Author high-quality technical documentation, reference architectures, and internal guides to scale knowledge and best practices across the organization.
• Establish and document engineering best practices, coding standards, and reusable patterns for Labs projects, enabling rapid and consistent solution delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Field Engineering, Product, and Platform Engineering—to gather requirements, align on technical direction, and drive project execution.
• Contribute to the evaluation, adoption, and integration of new technologies relevant to Databricks Labs and our automation tooling ecosystem.

What we look for:

• Experience working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Production experience of 10+ years in at least three of the following: Terraform, Scala, Go, Apache Spark, Java, Python. Experience with one compiled language is required.
• Passion for defensive programming and building highly scalable and reliable software.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of producing clear technical documentation and sharing knowledge across teams.

Benefits

• Employer contributions to public or private health plan
• Equity awards
• Paid parental leave
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Business travel insurance