Solutions Architect - Lakebase
Job description
A Solutions Architect (Lakebase) role at Databricks, paired with an Account Executive to drive adoption of the Lakebase transactional database product line within an assigned territory. The role provides deep technical expertise and acts as a trusted advisor to clients.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Collaborate with GTM leadership and account teams to design and execute high-impact engagement strategies across your territory
- As a trusted advisor, serve as an expert Solutions Architect and "champion," building technical credibility with stakeholders to drive product adoption and vision
- Enable clients at scale through workshops and developing customer-facing collateral that helps increase technical knowledge and thought leadership
- Influence product roadmap by translating field-derived, data-driven insights into strategic recommendations for Product and Engineering teams
- Handle the most complex technical challenges in this product line by acting as the tier-3 escalation point for the field, ensuring customer success in mission-critical environments
- Devise and implement a strategy across assigned accounts, develop presentations, demos and other assets and deliver them
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of transactional database (OLTP) expertise across engineering, product development, administration, and pre-sales, with a proven track record of designing and delivering client-facing solutions
- Credibility in influencing OLTP products with the market insight needed to shape and prioritise roadmap capabilities
- Experience architecting solutions that integrate transactional data systems within broader Big Data, Lakehouse, and AI ecosystems
- Infrastructure, platform and administration expertise around disaster recovery, high availability, backup and recovery, scale-out methods, identity and security management, migrations (vendor-to-vendor, on-prem to cloud)
- 6+ years in a customer-facing, pre-sales or consulting role influencing technical executives, driving high-level data strategy and product adoption
- Proven ability to co-plan large territories with Account Executives and operate in a highly coordinated, cross-functional effort across GTM and R&D teams
- Experience collaborating with Global System Integrators (GSIs) and third-party consulting organisations to drive customer outcomes
- Proficient in programming, debugging, and problem-solving using SQL and Python
- Hands-on experience building solutions within major public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Broad experience (in two or more) and understanding across the fields of data engineering, data warehousing, AI, ML, governance, transactional systems, app development, and streaming
- Undergraduate degree (or higher) in a technical field such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering or similar
- A track record of driving complex projects to completion in fast-paced, customer-facing environments
Your team
Solutions Architect (Lakebase)
Part of a global go-to-market team mandate, covering a specific, local region; paired with an Account Executive aligned to a given product line.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees
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About Databricks
The Data and AI company
Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.
Key facts
- San Francisco
- Data and AI
- More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform
- 70% of the Fortune 500 rely on Databricks
- 30+ offices around the globe
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