Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise (Startups)

Identity has become a critical to an organizations security posture. This is true across their entire digital landscape include cloud, traditional on prem and emerging technologies like agentic ai. Britive is at the forefront of a modern approach to delivering identity security with the only modern privileged access management platform that provides unified Privileged Access Visibility, Dynamic Privilege Management and Secrets Governance across infrastructure, platforms & SaaS. Our patent-pending technology is deployed at companies of all sizes around the world, including Fortune 500 companies. We have repeatedly ranked among the hottest Cloud Security startups. Britive is founded by CyberSecurity industry veterans with a successful prior exit and is backed by top-tier VCs. About Britive Britive is the leader in Cloud-Native Privileged Access Management (CPAM), delivering the industry’s first dynamic, agentless platform purpose-built to eliminate standing privileges and enforce Just-in-Time (JIT) ephemeral access across multi-cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Our API-first platform unifies security policy enforcement across human, agentic AI, and non-human/machine identities—integrating natively with leading identity providers (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Ping Identity), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and DevOps pipelines (Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions). Trusted by Fortune 500 organizations, Britive enables Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) by design, securing access without slowing down engineering teams. About You You are an experienced Sales Engineer who combines deep technical fluency with a passion for customer success. You thrive in complex enterprise environments, are equally comfortable presenting to a CISO and whiteboarding an API integration with a DevOps team, and you bring the consultative instincts to guide prospects through every stage of a technical sale—from initial discovery through proof-of-concept and close. You are res

FEQ427R411 Req ID Mission Reporting to a Director, Field Engineering, the Sr. Manager, Field Engineering will help lead a team of Solutions Architects (SAs) for the Startups segment of Databricks’ Field Engineering team. You will lead and promote a diverse team focusing on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, data science, data warehousing and gener ative AI. Leading the technical sales team, you will partner with Sales (and other Field Engineering technical segments) to increase revenue and help custo mers achieve success through Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform. You wil scale and maintain an outstanding Field Engineering team that is efficient in its operations to help ac celerate Data bricks' growth in the market. The Impact You Will Have You will hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode Make your customers e xtremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses You will maintain a robust hiring pipeline of highly qualified, bar-raising candidates You will establish relationships across the business to make your customers and team successful You will keep your team of SAs ah ead of the technical curve by ensuring they maintain advanced knowledge of the Databricks technology stack You will ensure that you r team is continuously learning and working to provide our customers with the most comprehensive solution s for their needs You will engage with customers strategically at the Executive Level to drive mutually beneficial outcomes and set GTM strategy and drive world class execution towards meeting aggressive sales targets What We Look For Proven experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams - hiring, on-boarding, coaching and mentoring those teams to mature and grow into highly capable individual operators as well as exceptional team-players 10+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big da

P-344 At Databricks, our customers challenge us with solving some of the world's toughest data problems. Our customers rely on our Solutions Architect team to understand the technologies that power our platform, the broader cloud and technology ecosystems, and how they can all be brought together to solve these problems. Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a member of our team, you will sharpen your skills on open-source projects such as Apache Spark™, MLflow, and Delta Lake to advocate the Lakehouse paradigm on public cloud providers. You will gain expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, data science, and machine learning. In this customer-facing role, you will identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through implementations to deliver strategic business value. You will partner with the sales team to build relationships with our customers and establish yourself as a trusted advisor. Databricks' culture thrives on collaboration and teamwork, and you will contribute your knowledge to our teams by participating in our subject matter expert groups. In this role, you will report to the Solutions Architect Leader supporting the specific business segment. If you are a technologist interested in Data and AI, and enjoy prototyping solutions for customers, this role is for you. The impact you will have: Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from Databricks Consult on big data architecture, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications Build and present reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues Become an expert in, and evangelize Dat

FEQ227R273 While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. #CMEG 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. 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 pr

FEQ227R273 While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. #CMEG 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. 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 pr

Sr. Solutions Architect (L6) The Role As a Sr. Solutions Architect, you are an expert-level technical leader responsible for the organization's most complex customer engagements. You drive consumption strategy, own executive-level relationships, and serve as the definitive technical authority for your accounts. You have declared your archetype—a recognized technical specialization that makes you a force multiplier across your team and region. You operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise, strategic account planning, and executive influence. The Impact You Will Have Drive the technical and consumption strategy for the organization's most complex customer engagements, directly influencing platform adoption and revenue growth. Own senior-level technical relationships — serving as a trusted advisor on enterprise data and AI strategy Lead the most complex architecture engagements: multi-workload platforms, enterprise-wide migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale Operate as an Expert on the Databricks Platform with a declared archetype — actively mentoring others and driving horizontal impact across your team Develop and execute competitive strategies for your customers, positioning Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms Orchestrate cross-functional teams (DSAs, SSAs, Partners, Product) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions Coach and develop junior SAs (L3–L5) on technical depth, customer engagement, and use case prioritization Contribute to Field Engineering thought leadership through customer-facing content, workshops, and community engagement What We Look For 8+ years in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role Expert-level coding proficiency — Python, SQL, and ideally Spark/PySpark. You will complete a live coding assessment and a platform build during the interview Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture: distributed systems at scale, stre