Senior Solutions Engineer (Technical, Presales, Data & AI, DNB) (Data & AI)

Location: London or surrounding areas, United Kingdom

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data and AI Platform for data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and AI applications.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads across data engineering, analytics, and machine learning.
• Build and deliver proofs of concept, live demos, and technical presentations on the Databricks Platform.
• Own technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads.
• Develop account-level technical strategies with the Account Executive to expand platform usage.
• Explain Databricks differentiation in competitive evaluations through hands-on demonstrations.
• Create reusable notebooks, solution accelerators, and reference architectures for the Solutions Architect community.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical presales, or hands-on consulting.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, including debugging, optimization, and production-quality coding; live coding is required during the interview.
• Experience designing and implementing data solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Working knowledge of distributed data systems such as Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Hadoop, Kafka, or Flink.
• Experience leading customer discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews, presentations, and live demos.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Databricks certification or experience with the Databricks Platform.
• Experience with Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, or MLflow.
• Background at a data or AI company, cloud provider, or technical consulting firm.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks, with details varying by region.
• Inclusive culture focused on equal employment opportunity and enabling employees to excel.
• Access to a global organization with more than 30 offices and customers worldwide.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen and hiring manager screen.
• Design and architecture interview followed by a live coding assessment.
• Build, demo, and pitch presentation, followed by a reference check.