Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Utilities/Energy

Location: Tokyo, Japan Req ID: FEQ427R141 Reporting to: Manager, Field Engineering Language requirements: Business-professional Japanese required; business-level English preferred Mission As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect focused on Manufacturing and Automotive, you will engage with leading global automotive manufacturers and strategic industry accounts across Japan. In partnership with Account Executives, Solutions Architects, technology specialists, partners, and customer teams, you will develop and execute technical strategies that help customers adopt the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and achieve measurable business outcomes. You will translate complex automotive and manufacturing challenges into scalable data and AI solutions across vehicle platforms, connected-vehicle analytics, vehicle and component quality, supply-chain optimization, smart manufacturing, engineering and R&D analytics, aftersales, customer intelligence, and AI-powered applications. You will operate with a builder mindset, creating hands-on prototypes, demonstrations, and proof points that accelerate customer confidence and adoption. The impact you will have Develop and execute customer engagement strategies in partnership with Account Executives and Solutions Architects for strategic automotive and manufacturing accounts. Lead complex customer engagements across the full technical pre-sales lifecycle, including discovery, requirements gathering, solution scoping, architecture design, workshops, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and implementation planning. Coach account teams and peers on positioning, adoption strategies, use-case prioritization, and execution plans that deliver outcomes within a defined timeline. Influence stakeholders at all levels, from data practitioners and engineers to manufacturing leaders and C-level executives, by connecting technical decisions to business value. Act as a champion and trusted advisor for customers and colleagues on data, analytics, mach

Req ID : FEQ427R279 Location : Tokyo, Japan At Databricks, our core values are at the heart of everything we do; a culture of proactiveness and customer‑centricity guides us to build a unified platform that makes data and AI accessible to everyone. In Japan Public Sector , we help central ministries, agencies, local governments, and public institutions use data and AI to deliver better, more trusted services to citizens. You will be the senior technical leader for a set of strategic public sector accounts in Japan, using your executive‑level technical credibility and government expertise to shape and execute their data and AI strategy. Reporting to: Director, Field Engineering, Japan The impact you will have Own technical strategy for key Japan public sector customers, defining the target architecture and roadmap for their Databricks‑based data and AI platform. Lead solution design for priority government use cases (e.g., citizen 360 and eligibility, program analytics, smart infrastructure, cybersecurity, fraud/waste/abuse). Design for security and compliance , ensuring architectures meet public sector expectations on data residency, access control, governance, and auditability. Turn pilots into platforms , linking Databricks to visible mission outcomes and using those wins to drive expansion across bureaus, departments, and levels of government. Influence the ecosystem , collaborating with SIs, cloud providers, and public sector partners to deliver integrated, production‑grade solutions on Databricks. Mentor others , coaching Solutions Architects and partners on how to work effectively with Japan public sector stakeholders and patterns on the Databricks platform. What we look for 5+ years in data platforms, analytics, or cloud architecture, including significant experience with public sector organizations in Japan . Proven ability to build trust with senior government stakeholders (CIO, CDO, chief architect, bureau/department leaders) and lead high‑stakes technical

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role Are you looking to make a real impact and play a meaningful role in the growth of our company? As a Senior Solutions Architect (pre-sales) at Elastic you will serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor to our sales team, the customer, partners and community. You will understand and solve our customer’s business issues with the Elastic Stack, engage the regional Elastic community through events and programs, and enable sales through our Partners. A successful SA at Elastic will be focused on excellence; taking the initiative to improve both themselves and the team through continuous learning and questioning the status quo. This role is working within some of our biggest clients within the enterprise sector. What You Will Be Doing: Serving as the commercial technical point of contact within accounts. Developing a deep understanding of customers’ goals and objectives, and articulating how our offerings address their needs. Creating and owning value based relationships at all levels in the organization. Actively participating in all phases of planning and execution for your territory, from initial discovery to the technical win. Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of the Elastic products and solutions to demonstrate the value of our offerings in sales meetings, and at events such as meetups and conferences.

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role As a Partners Solutions Architect on the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on cultivating technical relationships with our Global and Regional System Integrators (GSIs/RSIs), and our cloud partners (AWS and GCP). You will strengthen our relationships with key partners to accelerate indirect revenue, enable their AI practices, and execute on long-term GTM strategy. Key Responsibilities Strategic Technical Partnership : Be a technical thought partner to the Anthropic GTM partnerships team, providing technical expertise to better understand the partner landscape, driving key strategic programs, and identifying opportunities to deepen partner technical capabilities. Embed with GSI and cloud partner technical teams to enable their AI practices, support troubleshooting, evangelize Anthropic in their developer communities, and serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues. Joint Solution Development: Collaborate with partners to identify high value industry-specific GenAI applications, develop joint solutions and codify reference architectures / best practices to accelerate time to deployment Customer Deal Support: Intervene directly to unblock strategic customer deals where partners are the primary delivery vehicle, providing deep technical expertise and solution architecture guidance. Partner Ecosystem & Events : Represent Anthropic at partner events such as GSI customer workshops, AWS summits, and industry conferences. Lead or support partner-specific developer events, hackathons, and technical enablement sessions, especially for technically native communities. Pro

Req #: P-1372 Location: Tokyo, Japan As a Partner Solutions Architect you will work with Databricks' Consulting and System Integrator (C&SI) partners, teammates, and with the technical and sales team members who work directly with our customers. You will develop 'technical champions' within our top C&SI Partners, providing enablement on technical matters related to the Databricks product. Working with our partners, you will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Data + AI Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. As a member of our team, you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark™, MLflow, and Delta Lake; and major public cloud infrastructure and services. the product. You will use this expertise to become a trusted advisor to C&SI partners. You will report to the AVP, FDE. The impact you will have: Provide partners with the level of enablement they need to assist their clients in evaluating and adopting Databricks including hands-on Apache Spark™ programming and integration with the wider cloud ecosystem Engage with the partner technical community by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design and will share this with our partner network Show expertise by producing creative technical solutions and blog post What we look for: 5+ years of pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients or partners across a variety of industry markets Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either data engineering or data science Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) Coding experience in SQL / Python / Scala / Java&n

Req ID: FEQ327R425 Location: Tokyo, Japan Language Requirements: Fluent Japanese required; Business-level English preferred As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. These are customer-facing roles, working with and supporting the Solution Architects, requiring hands-on production experience with cloud infrastructure and big data technologies. SSAs help customers through the design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for expanding the usage of the Databricks Data Intelligence 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 to continuously consolidate the skills in your area of speciality. The impact you will have: Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural and security design to development and deployment best practices including automation Architect production-level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimisation Provide technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and security relating to our Databricks Intelligence Platform Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, workload sizing, and custom architectures Improve community adoption (through tutorials, training, hackathons, conference presentations) Contribute to the Databricks Community and act as a technical SME. What we look for: Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets Experience as a Data Platform engineer designing, setting up, and maintaining production-grade big data systems (Spark) Experience designing cloud i