Sr. Solutions Engineer
DatabricksData Lakehouse company
London, United KingdomSenior
Andreessen Horowitz
New Enterprise Associates
T. Rowe Price
NVIDIA
CapitalG
Morgan Stanley
Sales & Account ManagementNew
About the role
TL;DR
Lead technical engagements, design solutions, and demonstrate Databricks platform capabilities to customers.
- •FEQ327R417 The Role As a Sr.
- •Solutions Engineer, you will independently lead technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations.
- •You are a builder who can code, architect, and present—combining technical depth with customer-facing skills to drive Databricks adoption.
- •You will own frontline customer relationships and work with your Account Executive to develop technical strategies that expand platform usage.
- •Key Responsibilities Independently lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads spanning data engineering, analytics, and machine learning Build and deliver compelling proofs-of-concept and live demos on the Databricks Platform that drive technical wins Own frontline technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads Develop account-level technical strategies in partnership with your Account Executive to grow platform consumption Navigate competitive landscapes by articulating Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations Requirements 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a hands-on consulting role Proficient in Python and SQL with demonstrated ability to debug, optimize, and write production-quality code
- •live coding is a required interview stage Hands-on experience designing and implementing data solutions on at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) Working knowledge of distributed data systems: Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, or equivalent (Hadoop, Kafka, Flink) Experience leading technical customer conversations
- •discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews
Required skills
PythonSQLAWSAzureGoogle CloudSparkDatabricks
Nice-to-have skills
MLflow
Tech stack
PythonSQLAWSAzureGoogle CloudSparkDatabricks
