Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Warehousing
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Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Warehousing at Databricks is a forward deployed data & ai platform role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Solutions / Sales Engineering role centers on technical discovery, demos, POCs, and helping buyers build internal consensus.
About Databricks
Databricks sells a unified data platform to enterprises. Forward deployed engineers help customers migrate workloads and prove value on live data. The role is anchored in United States, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
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- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Warehousing to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Databricks hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Bring a tight demo narrative: customer pain, live workflow, and measurable before/after — treat the interview like a compressed POC.
- Show how you qualify opportunities and say no to bad-fit pilots; Databricks values technical judgment in customer-facing roles.
- This role is tied to United States — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Databricks
- Demonstrate Spark/SQL fluency with a concrete example — Databricks will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate enterprise stakeholder management with a concrete example — Databricks will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Strong candidates show they can whiteboard a lakehouse migration and then actually implement the first milestone.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on databricks.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
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As a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Engineering and Warehousing, you will guide customers through cloud data engineering transformations across a wide variety of use cases. In this customer-facing role, you will collaborate with and support Solutions Architects. This requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data engineering technologies and lakehouse architecture. The SSA teams help customers navigate evaluations and successfully plan production for their business intelligence workloads while aligning their technical roadmap with 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, continuous learning, and internal training programs. In this role, you will establish yourself as a leader in the data engineering and warehousing specialty.
The impact you will have:
Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects and large-scale data warehousing workloads. Prove the value of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for customer workloads by architecting production workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization. Architect production-level data pipelines, including end-to-