Solutions Architect – Digital Sovereignty

<p>FEQ128R99</p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Germany (remote or from a Databricks office – anywhere in Germany) <strong>Languages:</strong> Fluent German and business-level English</p> <p>At Databricks, we build the platform that makes data and AI usable across an entire organization. More and more of our customers in Germany – public sector, critical infrastructure (KRITIS), financial services, healthcare, defence and industry – need to keep control over where their data lives and who can access it. They want the full power of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform without giving up data residency, jurisdictional control or the option to switch providers.</p> <p>As a Solutions Architect for Digital Sovereignty, you are the technical lead for this motion in Germany. You design sovereign data and AI architectures with customers, run proofs of concept end to end, and help our sovereign cloud partners and account teams turn a proven pattern into production workloads.</p> <h2>The impact you will have</h2> <ul> <li>Act as the trusted technical advisor on digital sovereignty for strategic and regulated customers across Germany, from the first conversation with the CIO/CISO through to production.</li> <li>Design and validate sovereign reference architectures</li> <li>Run complex proofs of concept and pilots – performance, scalability, security and network connectivity tests with different data volumes – and translate the results into clear go/no-go recommendations.</li> <li>Work hand in hand with sovereign cloud and storage partners: joint solution design, enablement of partner technical teams, co-selling and joint customer workshops.</li> <li>Position Databricks clearly in the sovereignty discussion – CLOUD Act, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, BSI C5, EU Data Act, open formats and exit strategies – and articulate how our open architecture reduces lock-in compared with competing approaches.</li> <li>Feed field requirements back to Databricks Product and Engineering, and collaborate