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Databricks
Posted 67 days agoVerified live 17h ago

Solutions Architect

Brief overview

Remote
4+ yrsMinimum
901 H-1B approvalsDept. of Labor
294 green cardsCertified filings
Apache SparkMLflowDelta LakePythonScalaJavaSQLRAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformData EngineeringHadoopKafkaData WarehousingOLTPOLAP

About the company

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Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.

Visa sponsorship history

4 years sponsoring, last filed FY2026

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901H-1B approved
100%approval rate
208new H-1B hires
294PERM certified
$160,000median wage / yr
H-1B Petition ApprovalsVisas USCIS actually granted: the strongest sign the company sponsors.
2023200
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LCA Certified ApplicationsAn early filing step, not a visa approval: it signals intent, not confirmed sponsorship.
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Green Card (PERM) FilingsCertified green card filings: a long-term commitment to international hires.
2023112
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Job description

Summary

Databricks is the data and AI company that helps organizations solve complex data problems. As a Solutions Architect, you will lead the adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, working closely with customers to develop solutions and guide them through implementations.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Data and AI solutions from Databricks
  • Consult on big data architecture, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
  • Build and present reference architectures, technical guides, and demo applications for customers
  • Provide escalated support for critical customer operational issues
  • Become an expert in, and evangelize Databricks driven open-source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
  • Use your strengths to help your fellow SA's, and drive cross-functional relationships across the company
  • Travel to customers up to 30%

Skills

  • 4+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
  • Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
  • Comfortable programming in and debugging at least one of Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience in at least one of the following: Data Engineering technologies *(e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)*, Data Warehousing *(e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)*, Data Science and Machine Learning technologies *(e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)*
  • Degree in a quantitative discipline *(e.g., Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.)*
  • Nice to have: Databricks Certification

Qualifications

Must Haves

  • 4+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
  • Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
  • Comfortable programming in and debugging at least one of Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience in at least one of the following: Data Engineering technologies *(e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)*, Data Warehousing *(e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)*, Data Science and Machine Learning technologies *(e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)*

Nice to Haves

  • Degree in a quantitative discipline *(e.g., Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.)*
  • Nice to have: Databricks Certification

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