Senior Solutions Architect (Databricks, AI)

Location: Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Southeast, United States

Salary: $219,100–$301,300 USD annually

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data and AI Platform for building and scaling data applications, analytics, and AI agents.

What you will do

• Drive technical and consumption strategy for complex enterprise customer engagements.
• Own senior technical relationships and advise executives on data and AI strategy.
• Lead architecture engagements involving multi-workload platforms, enterprise migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale.
• Develop competitive strategies and position the Databricks Platform against competing solutions.
• Orchestrate DSAs, SSAs, partners, and product teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.
• Mentor junior solutions architects and contribute to customer-facing thought leadership.

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.
• 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 with competing platforms.
• Experience driving platform adoption, consumption growth, competitive displacements, and complex enterprise evaluations.
• 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 another 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 are available, with details varying by region.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity.
• Compensation may also include an annual performance bonus, equity, and additional benefits.

Hiring process

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