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Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Warehousing

Databricks
United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Mar 2024
💰 $247,300/yr($139,800/yr$247,300/yr)

About the role

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This role can be remote. 

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Warehousing, you will guide customers in their cloud data warehousing transformation with Databricks which span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, that requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data warehousing technologies, and expertise in other modern data technologies such as Apache Spark™. SSAs help customers through evaluations and successful planning of data warehousing workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for expanding the usage of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in the data warehousing specialty - including performance tuning, data modeling, winning evaluations, and production migration planning.

The impact you will have:

  • Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful cloud transformations on large-scale data warehousing workloads - ranging from evaluation to architecture design to production deployment
  • Prove the value of the Databricks Lakehouse Architecture on customer workloads by architect production level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization
  • Become a technical expert in an area such as competitive evaluations or helping set up successful workload migrations
  • Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
  • Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)
  • Contribute to the Databricks Community

What we look for:

  • 5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in data warehousing including:
    • Competitive evaluation - heavy performance tuning
    • Large and multi-year cloud Data Warehouse migrations
  • Experience with design and implementation of data warehousing technologies including NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP
  • Deep Specialty Expertise with scaling big data workloads that are performantand cost-effective - including technologies such as Delta Lake
  • Maintained, extended, or migrated a production data warehouse system to evolve with complex needs
  • Experience with the AWS, Azure, or GCP clouds
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
  • Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala, or Java
  • 2 years professional experience with Big Data technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and architectures
  • 2 years customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role
  • Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire
  • Can travel up to 30% when needed

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • 401(k) Plan
  • FSA, HSA and Commuter Benefit Plans
  • Equity Awards
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Family Planning
  • Fitness Reimbursement
  • Annual Career Development Fund
  • Home Office/Work Headphones Reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
  • Business Travel Accident Insurance
  • Mental Wellness Resources

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base 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 utilizes 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.

 

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