Senior Solutions Architect (Data & AI)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Company

Databricks is a data and AI company providing a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, machine learning, applications, and agents.

What you will do

• Drive technical and consumption strategies for complex enterprise customer engagements, influencing platform adoption and revenue growth.
• Own senior technical relationships and advise executives on enterprise data and AI strategy.
• Lead architecture engagements involving multi-workload platforms, enterprise migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale.
• Act as a technical expert on the Databricks Platform, mentor other solutions architects, and drive knowledge-sharing across the region.
• Develop competitive strategies and lead complex enterprise evaluations and platform displacements.
• Coordinate DSAs, SSAs, partners, and product teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role.
• Expert coding proficiency in Python and SQL; Spark or PySpark experience is preferred for the role's technical work.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, streaming and real-time architectures, lakehouse design, data governance, and cloud-native platforms.
• Expert-level Databricks Platform knowledge or equivalent expertise in competing platforms, with the ability to learn rapidly.
• Experience driving platform adoption, consumption growth, competitive displacements, and complex enterprise evaluations.
• Ability to influence Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders and connect technical decisions to business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Databricks certifications.
• Experience at Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or a leading data and AI company.
• Published thought leadership, conference talks, or open-source contributions.
• Industry expertise with executive-level domain credibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to the employee's region.
• Inclusive culture focused on equal employment opportunity and enabling employees to excel.
• Opportunity to contribute to customer-facing content, workshops, community engagement, and field engineering thought leadership.

Hiring process

• Live coding assessment.
• Platform build exercise during the interview process.