Senior Solutions Engineer (Data & AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data and AI Platform for building and scaling data, 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 and live demonstrations 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 through hands-on demonstrations and competitive positioning.
• Create reusable notebooks, solution accelerators, and reference architectures for the Solutions Architect community.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, 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 technical customer conversations, including discovery, whiteboarding, and architecture reviews.
• 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.
• Experience with ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, streaming, model training, MLOps, or SQL analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered according to the employee’s region.
• Inclusive hiring practices and a commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity.
• Access to a global organization with more than 30 offices and customers worldwide.

Hiring process

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