Specialist Solutions Architect - DE/DWH

Req: FEQ127R163

Location: London

Recruiter: Dina Hussain

Skills: Data Engineering/DWH

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Engineering, you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, and will require hands-on production experience with Apache Spark™ and expertise in other data technologies. SSEs help customers through the design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap to expand the use of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Senior Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs, and establish yourself in an area of speciality - whether that be streaming, performance tuning, industry expertise, or more.

The impact you will have

Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment

Architect production-level data pipelines, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimisation

Become a technical expert in an area such as data lake technology, big data streaming, or big data ingestion and workflows

Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale, including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures

Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)

Contribute to the Databricks Community

What we look for

Extensive experience in a customer-facing technical role. Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets

Nice to have: Databricks Certification

Travelling approx.