Lakebase Sales Specialist (Enterprise UKI)

ReqID: FEQ327R501 Location: London Skills: Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, LLM, GenAI Mission As a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect (ML & AI), you will serve as the trusted technical ML and AI expert for Databricks customers and the Field Engineering organization. You will partner with Solution Architects to guide enterprise and strategic customers in architecting production-grade ML and AI applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You will also continue to sharpen your technical expertise in cutting-edge areas like GenAI, ML, MLOps, and LLMOps, while mentoring colleagues and establishing yourself as an AI thought leader. Impact you will have Architecting Workloads: Design and implement production-level ML and AI workloads, including end-to-end pipelines, training/inference optimization, MLOps lifecycle management, and integration with cloud-native services. GenAI Leadership: Serve as a practitioner for enterprise GenAI solutions, specializing in RAG architectures, agentic systems (including tool-calling, multi-agent orchestration, and guardrails), AI observability, and natural language querying of structured data. Provide advanced technical support to Solution Architects during the technical sales cycle by building MVPs, leading deep-dive sessions, and aligning AI solutions with complex customer business challenges. Product Influence: Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to represent the voice of the customer, define priorities, and influence the platform’s AI roadmap. Thought Leadership: Drive community growth and AI platform adoption through the creation of technical tutorials and training materials, as well as by presenting at industry conferences and leading hackathons. What we look for Experience: 10+ years of hands-on industry DS/ML experience, with a focus on either: ML Engineering: Building/maintaining production-grade cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) that supports depl

SLSQ327R368 Databricks is seeking a Lakebase Sales Specialist to help customers modernize their operational data foundation with Databricks Lakebase , our fully-managed Postgres offering for intelligent applications . This high-impact role sits within the Lakebase Go-To-Market team and partners closely with regional Account Executives to drive adoption of Lakebase with platform, application, and data teams. Lakebase gives customers a unified, governed foundation for operational workloads and AI-native applications , helping them move away from a fragmented estate of point databases toward a modern, scalable, serverless Postgres service. If you want to be at the forefront of operational databases for AI and intelligent applications at one of the fastest-growing data and AI companies in the world, this is your opportunity. The impact you will have Drive new Lakebase revenue by identifying, qualifying, and driving Lakebase activations and consumption within a defined territory, in partnership with regional Account Executives and the broader account team. Lead with outcomes for key Lakebase personas — including platform teams and developers , data teams , and central IT — articulating how Lakebase helps them ship features faster, simplify operational data architectures, and improve governance and cost efficiency. Sell the value of fully-managed Postgres for intelligent applications , positioning Lakebase as the optimal choice for operational workloads that power real-time, AI-driven experiences. Run complex, multi-threaded sales cycles from discovery and value hypothesis through commercial negotiation and close, navigating executive, technical, and line-of-business stakeholders. Orchestrate proof-of-value and POCs that validate Lakebase’s benefits for OLTP-style workloads, reverse ETL, and AI/ML-driven applications, in partnership with solution architects and specialist

A newly created role to help Databricks create new product categories. As Databricks accelerates its most strategic products, we are investing ahead of the curve in the partner ecosystem that helps our customers adopt them, and we are building a new specialisation function to lead that effort. You will pioneer it across EMEA. Reporting to: Director, Partner Field Engineering (EMEA). As the Senior Product Specialist Partner Solutions Architect, you own how our leading System Integrator partners develop deep, market-leading expertise in Databricks' priority products: OLTP/Postgres (Lakebase): Databricks' fully managed, Postgres-compatible operational (OLTP) database for intelligent applications Product AI (Genie): Databricks' natural-language analytics experience, letting anyone ask questions of governed data conversationally AI Router & Governance (Unity Gateway): Databricks' governed gateway for securely managing, monitoring and routing access to AI and large language model endpoints Migrations & Modernisation: moving legacy data warehouses and platforms onto the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Turn-key Solutions: Cybersecurity (Lakewatch) and CDP (CustomerLake) with more to come Your mandate is to take our leading partners to the highest tier of Centre-of-Excellence product specialisation on these products, and to turn them into independent, market-leading extensions of the Databricks field. Working hand in hand with our EMEA Product Specialist team, you will carry both the deep technical narrative and the business-value and go-to-market narrative that get these products positioned, adopted and scaled through the partner channel. This is a builder's role: you will design the blueprint for a partner product-specialist function that Databricks scales globally, starting in EMEA. What we are trying to achieve Databricks' priority products are seeing strong momentum across EMEA. Lakebase is one of the fastest-growing additions to our platform, Unity Gatewa

The Solutions Architect (Lakebase) team executes on Databricks’ strategic Product Operating Model that provides enhanced focus on earlier stage, highly prioritised product lines in order to establish product market fit, and set the course for rapid revenue growth. They are part of a global go-to-market team mandate, though individually will cover a specific, local region. Clients may span across one or more business units and verticals. By working in partnership with direct account teams, they will jointly engage clients, foster the necessary relationships, position in-depth the specific product line, so as to provide compelling reasons for clients to adopt and grow the usage of the given product. They understand the appropriate approach, the guardrails, and the steps needed to successfully adopt the product line, as clients deliver on their business objectives. The Solutions Architect (Lakebase) is paired with an Account Executive aligned to a given product line with specific targets accordingly. Together, they will devise and implement a strategy across their assigned set of accounts, develop presentations, demos and other assets and deliver them such that clients make an informed decision as they decide to adopt the product-line in a meaningful way. The Lakebase product-line requires the following core technical competencies: 10+ years of transactional database (OLTP) expertise across engineering, product development, administration, and pre-sales, with a proven track record of designing and delivering client-facing solutions. Credibility in influencing OLTP products with the market insight needed to shape and prioritise roadmap capabilities. Experience architecting solutions that integrate transactional data systems within broader Big Data, Lakehouse, and AI ecosystems. Infrastructure, platform and administration expertise around disaster recovery, high availability, backup and recovery, scale-out methods, identity and security management, mig

P-1584 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer-obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. Lakebase enables teams to deliver applications faster with an optimised database developer experience, integration with the lakehouse, and simplified operations. It provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI. You'll join as one of the founding leaders building out both the Lakebase product and our London presence. This is a Tech Lead Manager role: a hands-on technical leader who guides a small team of around five engineers while staying deep in the engineering work. You'll spend the majority of your time hands-on — driving architecture and design, solving the hardest problems in your team's projects, aligning with partner teams on dependencies, and writing code — and the rest leading and growing the engineers around you, who will report directly to you. It's role for a strong senior engineer who wants to lead a team and take on people management without stepping away from the technical work. The team you will lead (one of): Lakebase Platform Reliability (LPR) — Constantly evolve Lakebase reliability: cross-functional infrastructure, observability, SLI/SLO definition and measurement, and higher operational efficiency without humans-in-the-loop, for both internal and customer-facing systems, by building AI-powered automation and serv

P-1514 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. Founded by engineers, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Lakehouse Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. We want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads. Lakebase enables teams to deliver applications faster with an optimized database developer experience, integration with the lakehouse, and simplified operations. It provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI. You'll join as one of the founding engineers to build out both the Lakebase product and our London presence. Below are some example teams you can join: Lakebase Platform Reliability : Constantly evolving Lakebase Reliability. That includes cross-functional infrastructure, observability, SLI/SLOs definition and measurements, as well as achieving higher operational efficiency without the need for humans-in-the-loop (both internal and customer-facing), via building AI-powered automation and services Lakebase Manager (LBM): Build and operate the central control plane that owns the core logic for Lakebase — database creation and deletion, wake-up and s