Specialist Solutions Architect

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">FEQ227R130</p> <p>As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. These are customer-facing roles, working with and supporting the Solution Architects, requiring hands-on production experience with Apache Spark™ and expertise in other data technologies. SSAs help customers through design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for expanding the usage of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Director of Field Engineering, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in an area of specialty - whether that be performance tuning, machine learning, industry expertise, or more.</p> <p><strong>The impact you will have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment</li> <li>Architect production level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimisation</li> <li>Provide technical expertise in an area such as data management, cloud platforms, data science, machine learning, or architecture</li> <li>Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures</li> <li>Improve community adoption (through tutorials, training, hackathons, conference presentations)</li> <li>Contribute to the Databricks Community</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we look for:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You will have experience in a customer-facing technical role with expertise in at least one of the following:</li> <ul> <li>Software Engineer/Data Engineer: query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, a