Sr. Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business (Strategic Accounts)

Location: Nevada; remote in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, or Washington

Salary: $219,100–$301,300 USD annually, plus potential performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data and AI Platform used by organizations worldwide to build and scale data and AI applications, analytics, and agents.

What you will do

• Drive technical and consumption strategy for complex strategic customer engagements, influencing platform adoption and revenue growth.
• Lead architecture engagements involving multi-workload platforms, enterprise migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale.
• Own senior technical relationships and advise executives on enterprise data and AI strategy.
• Develop competitive strategies and position Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms.
• Orchestrate DSAs, SSAs, partners, and product teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.
• Mentor junior solutions architects and contribute to customer-facing thought leadership through content, workshops, and community engagement.

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 is preferred. The process includes a live coding assessment and platform build.
• 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 demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Recognized technical specialization in areas such as real-time architectures, ML/AI platforms, data governance, large-scale migrations, or industry-specific solutions.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.

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.
• Strategic account expertise with executive-level domain credibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits and perks are provided according to the employee’s region.
• Potential annual performance bonus, equity, and additional benefits.
• Commitment to an inclusive workplace and equitable hiring practices.

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.