Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business
- Salary
- $139,700 - $247,300
- Level
- Lead
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
P-273
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. #LI-REMOTE
As a Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will shape the future of the big data landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world.
Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with customers, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation; and develop technical champions along the way.
The impact you will have:
- You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
- 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.
What we look for:
- 5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
- Experience building distributed data systems
- Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
- Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Expertise in one of the following:
- Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
- Available to travel to customers in your region
- [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
- Nice to have: Databricks Certification
NOTE: If your experience isn’t a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you’re a good fit for the role, apply. We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Local Pay Range
$139,700—$247,300 USD
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About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Delta Lake · Hadoop · Kafka · MLflow · Pandas · PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn
Rare in Databricks's other 299 open postings.
Standard for solutions / sales engineering roles
Python
Common in solutions / sales engineering postings at any company.
In most of Databricks's ads
Unity
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
72% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Databricks's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Field Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 13 open in Field Engineering. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Databricks (13 of 13), Unity (13 of 13), Python (11 of 13), Scala (10 of 13), Java (8 of 13), Spark (8 of 13), Delta Lake (7 of 13)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
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- Sr. Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality posted Oct 21
- Solutions Architect - Healthcare/Life Sciences Team (HLS) posted Jul 22
- Solutions Architect posted Mar 7
- Solutions Architect - Manufacturing posted Dec 21
- Solutions Architect posted Sep 9
- Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise posted Aug 19
- Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise (Startups) posted Aug 19
- Solutions Architect - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Gaming posted Jul 18
- Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality posted Jul 14
- Solutions Architect posted Apr 5
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