Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer

As a Specialist Solutions Engineer (SSE) - Data Platform Engineering, you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, that requires hands-on production experience with Apache Spark, pipeline orchestration and DevOps expertise. SSAs help customers through evaluations and successful production planning for their business intelligence workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.  

As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in the data engineering speciality - including pipeline design, data modelling, winning competitive evaluations, architecture design and enterprise data governance, integration with other catalogues and production migration planning.

• Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment
• Architect production level data pipelines, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization
• Become a technical expert in an area such as data lake technology, big data streaming, or big data ingestion and workflows
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• Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
• Contribute to the Databricks Community

• Experience in a customer-facing technical role with expertise in the below:
  • Software Engineer/Data Engineer: data ingestion, streaming technologies - such as Spark Streaming and Kafka, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions
  • Data Applications Engineer: Build use cases that use data - such as risk modeling, fraud detection, customer life-time value
• Building data pipelines using big data technologies such as Spark/Delta or Hadoop
• Experience with Development Tools for CI/CD, Unit and Integration testing, Automation and Orchestration, REST API, BI tools and SQL Interfaces (e.g. Jenkins)
• Experience designing data solutions on cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP using best practices in cloud security and networking.
• Hands-on experience developing, testing, and deploying data models using dbt or equivalent technologies.
• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets, or looking to learn and develop in a customer-facing technical role as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience
• Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala, or Java.
• Ability to travel up to 30% when needed

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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