Databricks
Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (SLED)
$219K–$301K
Illinois +3 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 16, 2026
- Location
- Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Remote - California - Experience
- 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role.
- Education
- Degree in a quantitative discipline is desired; no required education stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- US Citizen.
About the job
Leads customer-facing technical sales and solution delivery for Databricks, helping public-sector customers evaluate, architect, and implement data and analytics solutions.
What you'll do
- Partner with sales and provide technical leadership to help customers evaluate and adopt Databricks.
- Design big-data architectures, build proof-of-concepts and demos, and validate integrations with cloud services and third-party applications.
- Promote Databricks open-source projects through developer communities; travel to customers in the region.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems.
- Programming and debugging ability in at least one of Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R.
- Experience supporting Public Sector clients.
- Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Nice to have
- Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research).
Pay
$219,100 — $301,300 USD (salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles; classification for this role is not stated).
Tools
Apache Spark, MLflow, Delta Lake, Koalas, Python, Scala, Java, SQL
AI focus
Consult on data science and machine-learning projects and help customers use Databricks for data and AI solutions.
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