[Remote] Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Warehousing (Healthcare & Life Sciences)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is the data and AI company, and they are seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Warehousing to guide customers in their cloud data warehousing transformation. This role involves providing technical leadership for cloud transformations, assisting with architecture design and production deployment, and serving as a technical expert in data warehousing evaluations and workload migrations.


Responsibilities

  • 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 Intelligence Platform for customer workloads by architecting production workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization
  • Become a technical expert in an area such as data warehousing 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 performance, and tuning workloads for production
  • Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)
  • Contribute to the Databricks Community

Skills

  • 5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in data warehousing - such as query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, data governance, debugging MPP data warehouses or other big data solutions, or migration workloads from EDWother systems
  • Experience with design and implementation of data warehousing technologies including relational databases, SQL, data analytics, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP
  • Deep Specialty Expertise in at least one of the following areas: Experience scaling large analytical data workloads in the cloud that are performant and cost-effective
  • Maintained, extended, or migrated a production data warehouse system to evolve with complex needs, including data modeling, data governance needs, and integration with business intelligence tools
  • Experience migrating on-premise EDW workloads to the public cloud
  • 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
  • Experience with the AWS, Azure, or GCP clouds
  • 2 years professional experience with data warehousing and big data technologies (Ex: SQL, Redshift, SAP, Synapse, EMR, OLAP & OLTP workloads)
  • 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

  • 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 https://www.databricks.com.

  • 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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