Specialist Solutions Architect @ Databricks

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This role can be remote.

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Warehousing, you will guide customers in their cloud data warehousing transformation with Databricks which span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, that requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data warehousing technologies, and expertise in other modern data technologies such as Apache Spark™. SSAs help customers through evaluations and successful planning of data warehousing workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for expanding the usage of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in the data warehousing specialty - including performance tuning, data modeling, winning evaluations, and production migration planning.

The impact you will have:

Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful cloud transformations on large-scale data warehousing workloads - ranging from evaluation to architecture design to production deployment
Prove the value of the Databricks Lakehouse Architecture on customer workloads by architect production level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization
Become a technical expert in an area such as competitive evaluations or helping set up successful workload migrations
Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)
Contribute to the Databricks Community

What we look for:

5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in data warehousing including:
- Competitive evaluation - heavy performance tuning
- Large and multi-year cloud Data Warehouse migrations
Experience with design and implementation of data warehousing technologies including NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP
Deep Specialty Expertise with scaling big data workloads that are performantand cost-effective - including technologies such as Delta Lake
Maintained, extended, or migrated a production data warehouse system to evolve with complex needs
Experience with the AWS, Azure, or GCP clouds
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala, or Java
2 years professional experience with Big Data technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and architectures
2 years customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role
Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire
Can travel up to 30% when needed

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision
401(k) Plan
FSA, HSA and Commuter Benefit Plans
Equity Awards
Flexible Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Family Planning
Fitness Reimbursement
Annual Career Development Fund
Home Office/Work Headphones Reimbursement
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Business Travel Accident Insurance
Mental Wellness Resources

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents 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 utilizes 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. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 1 Pay Range

$139,800—$247,300 USD

Zone 2 Pay Range

$139,800—$247,300 USD

Zone 3 Pay Range

$139,800—$247,300 USD

Zone 4 Pay Range

$139,800—$247,300 USD

About Databricks

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. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. 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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Compensation Overview

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Benefits