Drimva

Databricks

Solutions Architect - Strategic High Tech

$180K–$248K

Remote - California +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026

Location
Remote - California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
Experience
5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role.
Education
Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research) is desired.

About the job

Provides technical leadership to strategic customers by designing and validating data and AI architectures, building proof of concepts, and guiding platform implementation.

What you'll do

  • Partner with sales and customer teams to advise on business problems and Big Data architectures; implement proof of concepts across data engineering, data science, machine learning, and SQL workflows.
  • Validate integrations with cloud services, internal tools, and third-party applications; collaborate with Solutions Architects and customer stakeholders.
  • Promote Databricks open-source projects and develop technical champions in the developer community.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years in data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or a similar pre-sales/consulting role.
  • Experience building distributed data systems; comfortable programming in and debugging Python and SQL.
  • Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Expertise in data engineering technologies or data science and machine learning technologies; available to travel to customers in your region.

Nice to have

  • Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research).
  • Databricks Certification.

Pay

$180,000 — $247,500 USD (salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles)

Tools

Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka

AI focus

Guides an AI-native customer and implements proof-of-concept solutions spanning data science and machine learning workflows.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)