Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business

FEQ327R210 While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. #LI-REMOTE As a Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will shape the future of the big data landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with existing DNB customers, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation; and develop technical champions along the way. The impact you will have: You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems. Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community. What we look for: 5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role Experience building distributed data systems Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP Expertise in one of the following: Data Engineering technologies ( Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka ) Data Science and Machine Learning technologies ( Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch,

The Role As a Solutions Architect, you will lead the technical strategy for your customers — owning architecture discussions, driving platform adoption, and serving as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and architects. You combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to position Databricks as the foundation of your customers’ data and AI strategy. You are developing a technical specialization (archetype) and are recognized within your team for depth in a specific domain. You understand the relevance and application of ML & AI within a range of use cases important to existing digital native customers. The Impact You Will Have Own the end-to-end technical strategy for your accounts, from initial discovery through production deployment and consumption growth Lead complex architecture discussions — designing scalable, production-grade solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors Drive technical wins in competitive scenarios by demonstrating Databricks’ differentiation through custom-built solutions Develop and declare an emerging technical specialization (archetype) — becoming a go-to resource for your team in that domain Orchestrate cross-functional resources (DSAs, SSAs, Partners) to deliver comprehensive solutions for complex customer needs Influence product direction by providing structured feedback on customer requirements and competitive gaps What We Look For 6+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL — you must demonstrate live coding, debugging, and solution-building skills Deep expertise in distributed data systems architecture: designing scalable pipelines, streaming architectures, lakehouse patterns, and cloud-native data platforms Proficient on the Databricks Platform (or demonstrated ability to achieve pro

As a Sr. Solutions Architect on the team supporting the strategic Digital Natives Business (DNB) customers, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with customers, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions along the way. The impact you will have: You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems. Lead technical discovery and design architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. You will also help customers build solutions that integrate with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications. Act as strategic technical advisor to customers to help them drive business outcomes. Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users. Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Omnigent) across the developer community. What we look for: 7+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role Experience building distributed data systems Comfortable programming in and debugging Python and SQL Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP Expertise in one of the following: Data Engineering technologies ( Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka ) Data Science and Machine Learning technologies ( Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow ) Available to travel to customers in yo

As the manager of the Digital Natives Solutions Architect (SA) team, you will focus on growing and developing a team of SAs, driving the adoption of the Databricks Platform at the largest, fastest-growing tech companies. You'll be responsible for leading the team in establishing best practices throughout the full lifecycle of the customers' workloads. You will help each team member achieve success, productivity, and career growth. You will also represent Databricks as a technical leader with some of its most important customers. This role will work in close collaboration with sales, services, product, and engineering to drive solutions and outcomes for these highly technical customers. You will utilize excellent communication skills to clearly explain and demonstrate complex solutions to both internal and external stakeholders. This role will report to the leader of Solutions Architects for the Strategic Digital Native Business Unit focused on AI Native companies. Responsibilities : Hire and develop a team of deeply technical Solutions Architects capable of guiding digital native customers across a wide range of data, analytical, and AI workloads. Adapt the SA team's skills and engagement model to match the needs of Digital native customers Consistently meet or exceed targets by making sure the SA team knows how to technically qualify workloads, identify important use cases, build proof of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle Travel to customer sites for executive sessions, technical workshops, and building relationships Establish relationships across internal organizations (engineering, product, services, sales, etc.) to ensure the success of the customers and team Stay current with emerging Data and AI trends in the digital native tech sector What we look for : 4+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, cloud infrastructure, or mach

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospect

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospect