Principal Specialist Solutions Architect
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Job Description
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While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role candidates in other locations will be considered.
At Databricks we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the worlds toughest problems. Our customers leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to power their mission critical Data and AI applications to improve how their organisations leverage data and insights to make better decisions faster. Customers rely on Databricks for the full range of data workloads including data engineering ETL near real-time streaming machine learning SQL analytics and advanced analytics.
As a Product Specialist - Lakebase you will be a deep technical expert in OLTP systems and in how customers can be successful with developing analytical and transactional use-cases with OLTP databases within the Lakehouse paradigm. You will work closely with both Product Management and the EMEA Field Engineering and Sales teams to act as the technical bridge between these critical organisations to help make the Data Intelligence Platform vision a reality for our customers. You will provide thought leadership on best practices around how to build and deploy Lakebase applications with Databricks. You will work closely with the Databricks Product Management team to drive adoption of Lakebase and ensure a consistent product vision for the EMEA technical field. You will work closely with Sales and FE leaders to help drive adoption of Lakebase by identifying target accounts and messaging. You will support enablement activities for the EMEA technical field and sales teams and drive customer success through direct engagement and scale your expertise across EMEA.
You will report directly to the Sr. Director Product Specialists Databricks Field Engineering. Databricks Field Engineering works with our current and future customers to grow adoption win technical validations and advise customers on Databricks best practices. The Product Specialist - Lakebase owns the enablement and escalations within the EMEA Field Engineering team around relevant features.
The impact you will have:
- Deliver thought leadership in Lakebase best practices for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in the form of blogs webinars how to guides and technical know-how to the EMEA technical community and beyond
- Working with sales and FE leaders drive adoption of Lakebase across EMEA
- Provide a strong informed and data-driven perspective in conversations with the Product and Engineering teams to influence our product strategy and priorities in how customers can and should bring Databricks into their Data strategies
- Provide guidance and oversight for large-scale enterprise Lakebase competitive scenarios serving as a trusted technical advisor to senior tech leads and executives
- Act as the level three point of escalation on the toughest technical challenges in the field that customers face to drive customer success
- Build and manage an SME group in EMEA field-engineering around Lakebase
- Provide key messaging and approaches to ensure the EMEA technical field is prepared for competitive conversations
What we look for:
- Experience in designing and delivering cloud-based Data AI and OLTP Solutions in a client or customer environment
- Ability to advise customers in Lakebase architecture: Prepare Databricks stakeholders for internal conversations and communicate directly including anticipating blockers and address them before they become an issue
- Cross-Cloud Expertise: Help customers build a multi-cloud analytics ecosystem with Databricks at the centre and provide solutions for customers looking for disaster recovery fault tolerance and backup
- Certification and/or demonstrated competence in OLTP systems along with one of Azure AWS or GCP cloud providers
- Demonstrated competence in the Lakehouse architecture including hands-on experience with Apache Spark Python and SQL
- Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal
- Experience in pre-sales selling highly desired
Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full Time
