Req ID: FEQ327R410 The Role As a Solutions Architect in the Benelux Strategic Accounts team, you will play a lead role in driving 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 specialisation (archetype) and are recognised within your team for depth in a specific domain. The Impact You Will Have Own the end-to-end technical strategy with customer 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 specialisation (archetype) — becoming a go-to resource for your team in that domain Orchestrate cross-functional resources (Delivery, Specialist & Partner Solution Architects) 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 and/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 proficiency rapi
Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering
Salary not disclosed
Check market pay for comparable Specialist Solutions Architect roles before applying.
Role overview
Job description
(FEQ128R2) The Role As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) – Data Engineering, you are a hands-on technical authority who guides strategic customers in designing, building, and optimizing production-grade data workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Partnering closely with Account Teams and Solution Architects, you translate complex big data challenges into high-performance, scalable architectures using Apache Spark™ and modern streaming frameworks. In this role, you will drive successful implementations, align technical roadmaps to accelerate platform adoption, and establish deep domain specialization; whether in real-time streaming, performance optimization, or operational data layers, while expanding your impact across Field Engineering. The impact you will have: Drive Technical Wins & Scope: Lead end-to-end technical design, proof of concepts (PoCs), and workload
…What they are looking for
Skills & requirements
Qualification
government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone
Department · Field Engineering - Other

Hiring company
Databricks
Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform.
Related opportunities
Similar active roles
Relevant, currently active roles for this market.
🔔 Get job alerts
New Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering jobs in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, straight to your inbox.
No spam · Unsubscribe anytime