TL;DR

Solutions Architect (Retail/CPG): Exciting customers about Databricks, you will act as a technical advisor, helping customers design, validate, and adopt modern data and AI architectures on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with an accent on architecture, design, and implementation. Focus on authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications to scale best practices and build the Databricks community.

Location: The candidate must be able to commute to London offices regularly and travel approximately 20-30% of the time across UK&I for customer visits.

Company

Databricks is the data and AI company helping organizations unify and democratize data, analytics and AI.

What you will do

  • Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory, providing technical and business value.
  • Operate as an expert in big data analytics to excite customers about Databricks and develop into a trusted advisor on architecture, design, and implementation.
  • Author reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications to scale best practices in your field and support customers.
  • Act as a hands-on technical advisor, helping customers design, validate, and adopt modern data and AI architectures on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  • Grow your knowledge and expertise to the level of a technical and/or industry specialist.

Requirements

  • Experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, or pre-sales, with a strong hands-on approach to solving customer problems.
  • Strong capability in at least one or two of the following areas: Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, AI/ML, GenAI, AI Agents, or application development.
  • Experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, SQL) and willingness to learn a base level of Spark.
  • Hands-on experience with modern data and analytics technologies, including public cloud platforms and technical validation work such as prototypes or proofs of concept.
  • Experienced in use case discovery, scoping, and delivering complex solution architecture designs to multiple audiences, requiring an ability to context switch in levels of technical depth.
  • The candidate must be able to commute to London offices regularly and travel approximately 20-30% of the time across UK&I for customer visits

Nice to have

  • Databricks Certification

Culture & Benefits

  • Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
  • Hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.