Solutions Architect - Communications, Media, Entertainment and Games
DatabricksData Lakehouse company
Los Angeles, United States$180,000 - $247,500 USDSenior
Andreessen Horowitz
New Enterprise Associates
T. Rowe Price
NVIDIA
CapitalG
Morgan Stanley
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead technical strategy and drive platform adoption for customers in the Communications, Media, Entertainment, and Games sectors.
- •As a Solutions Architect, you will lead the technical strategy for your customers
- •owning architecture discussions, driving platform adoption, and serving as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and architects.
- •You combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to position Databricks as the foundation of your customers’ data and AI strategy.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end technical strategy for your accounts, from initial discovery through production deployment and consumption growth Lead complex architecture discussions
- •designing scalable, production-grade solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors Develop and declare an emerging technical specialization (archetype)
- •becoming a go-to resource for your team in that domain Requirements 6+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL
- •you must demonstrate live coding, debugging, and solution-building skills Deep expertise in distributed data systems architecture: designing scalable pipelines, streaming architectures, lakehouse patterns, and cloud-native data platforms Proficient on the Databricks Platform (or demonstrated ability to achieve proficiency rapidly) Proven ability to lead architecture discussions with senior technical stakeholders
Required skills
PythonSQLDatabricksAWSAzureGoogle CloudSparkLLMs
Nice-to-have skills
SnowflakeKubernetesCI/CDNLPComputer Vision
Domain expertise
mediaentertainment-musicgaming
Tech stack
PythonSQLDatabricksAWSAzureGoogle CloudSparkPandasNumPyAirflowdbtTableauPower BILookerSnowflakeFivetranDagsterPrefectApache KafkaApache FlinkTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnKerasOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChainHugging FaceComputer Vision