[Remote] Solutions Architect, Hunter - Digital Native Business

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is the data and AI company. As a Hunter Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will shape the future of the big data landscape by collaborating with customers and product teams to develop architectures and solutions using the Databricks platform.


Responsibilities

  • You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
  • Work directly with prospective, greenfield, customers on their 0 to 1 journey 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

Skills

  • 5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
  • Experience building distributed data systems at scale
  • Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
  • Experience using agentic coding harnesses and demonstrable experience scaling your work leveraging them
  • 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) or Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
  • Available to travel to customers in your region
  • Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
  • Databricks Certification

Benefits

  • Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees

Company Overview

  • Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 72 in 2026, 385 in 2025, 319 in 2024, 227 in 2023, 222 in 2022, 166 in 2021, 64 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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