Solutions Architect, Strategic Retail - Central

## Responsibilities - Develop and implement account technical strategies in partnership with Account Executive(s) in your designated strategic account(s), aligned to account growth goals. - Build technical champions within the account(s) to influence key technical decisions shaping the industry. - Influence stakeholders at all levels through complex engagements with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications, ensuring they are excited by the Databricks vision and solution strategy. - Be a 'champion' for both customers and colleagues, operating as an expert solution architect and trusted advisor for significant data analytics architecture, design, and adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. - Contribute to Databricks' technical community engagement by developing customer-facing collateral and leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups. - Opportunity to continue your development in one of four tracks - technical specialization, industry vertical thought leadership, strategic customer vision, and people management. ## Requirements - 8+ years of customer facing technical experience working in very large (> $3M-5M++) customers, preferably in pre-sales capacity - Deep Technical expertise in key areas such as big data, data science, data engineering, data-warehousing, and cloud technologies - An ability in data-driven business transformation and driving change with data, through AI-first and Builder mindset approach - 3+ years of experience with design and implementation experience in big data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP or full lifecycle data science solutions - Hands-on expertise with complex proofs-of-concept and public cloud platform(s) - Experience in a core programming language (i.e., Python, Java, Scala) and willingness to learn Spark - Know how to architect complex technical solutions for specialized customer needs and navigate a competitive landscape. - Can travel up to 30% when needed ## Nice to Have - Databricks Certification ## Benefits - Opportunity to continue your development in one of four tracks - technical specialization, industry vertical thought leadership, strategic customer vision, and people management. - Travel up to 30% when needed.