Overview
Databricks is seeking a Delivery Solutions Architect for the Digital Native Business to partner with customers to design and deliver data and analytics solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. This customer-facing role drives end-to-end delivery from discovery through implementation and adoption, focusing on digital-native enterprises.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery engagements for digital-native customers, translating business goals into scalable data architectures on Databricks Lakehouse.
- Design and implement data pipelines, data models, and analytics solutions using Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, and the wider Databricks stack.
- Collaborate with customers, field engineers, product and partner teams to produce reference architectures, deployment plans, and migration strategies.
- Own technical design sessions, provide hands-on guidance during implementation, and ensure solution performance, reliability, and security.
- Contribute to adoption enablement, best practices, and knowledge transfer to customer teams.
- Advise on governance, security, data privacy, and compliance requirements within cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Mentor and coach engineers and architects on delivery methodologies and Databricks platform capabilities.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data engineering, or technical delivery
- Deep experience with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, SQL, and Python/Java
- Proven track record delivering production-grade data and analytics solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong knowledge of data lakehouse patterns, data governance, security controls, and compliance
- Experience with orchestration and deployment tooling (Airflow, Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to interact with executive sponsors
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree a plus
Nice to have
- Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, MLflow, or ML tooling
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company helping global organizations unify data science, engineering, and business analytics on a simple, open platform.