Data & AI Platform Architect (Professional Services)

Overview

We’re hiring for multiple roles within our Professional Services team, potentially titled Senior Solutions Consultant, Resident Solutions Architect, or Senior Resident Solutions Architect, depending on experience and scope.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reference architectures, create how-to guides, and productionalize customer use cases.
• Scope professional services work with engagement managers based on customer input.
• Guide strategic customers through transformational big‑data projects, 3rd‑party migrations, end‑to‑end design, build and deployment of industry‑leading big‑data and AI applications.
• Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement projects leading to successful customer adoption of Databricks.
• Provide escalated support for customer operational issues.
• Collaborate with Databricks technical teams, project managers, architects and customer teams to ensure deliverables meet customer needs.
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and guide rapid resolution of engagement‑specific issues.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics.
• Comfortable writing code in Python or Scala.
• Working knowledge of two or more 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 supporting the deployment and integration of Databricks‑based solutions.
• Travel to customers up to 20% of the time.
• Databricks Certification (preferred).

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and perks are provided to employees worldwide. Specific details for the region can be requested.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics. Individuals applying 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.