Senior Solutions Architect (Data & AI)

Location: Austin, Chicago, Dallas, or Phoenix, United States

Salary: $219,100–$301,300 USD per year

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-level 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 field engineering 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 experience 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 depth in competing platforms.
• Experience driving consumption growth, platform adoption, 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 top-tier 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 offered according to the employee’s region.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.
• Annual performance bonus and equity may be included in the total compensation package.

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.