Data Platform Solutions Architect (Professional Services)

REQ ID: FEQ127R254 Location: Hybrid – London We’re hiring for multiple roles within our Professional Services team. Depending on experience and scope, this position may be offered as Senior Solutions Consultant, Resident Solutions Architect, or Senior Resident Solutions Architect. You may know this role as a Big Data Solutions Architect, Analytics Architect, Data Platform Architect, or Technical Consultant.

The final title will align to your experience, technical depth, and customer-facing ownership. As a Big Data Solutions Architect (Internal Title - Resident Solutions Architect) in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium-term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform.

You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. RSAs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service.

You will report to the regional Manager/Lead. The impact you will have: You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases Work with engagement managers to scope variety of  professional services work with input from the customer Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.

Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues. You will work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs. Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.

What We Look For

Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments Working knowledge of MLOps  Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.

Documentation and white-boarding skills. Experience working with clients and managing conflicts. Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects. Travel to customers 10% of the time [Preferred] Databricks Certification but not essential About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company.

More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.

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We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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Databricks is the lakehouse company. More than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M, and over 40% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. --- Attention: Databricks...