Senior Solutions Architect - Strategic Accounts, Digital Native Business

As a Senior Solutions Architect on the Digital Native Strategic team, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. Databricks' digital native customers are digital-first, cloud-native organizations that rely heavily on data and AI to drive their businesses at global scale. These companies are typically at the forefront of innovation, leveraging AI and Advanced analytics to power their products and operations. Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with our most strategic prospects and customers, work directly with product and engineering to drive the Databricks roadmap forward, and work with the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions along the way. You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems. You will work directly with the sales team to develop your book of business, define account strategies, and execute those strategies to help your customers and prospects solve their business problems with Databricks. Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.