Senior Solutions Engineer
Databricks
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At Databricks, our core principles are at the heart of everything we do; creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer-centric mindset guides us to build a unified platform that makes AI and Analytics accessible to everyone. We aim to inspire our customers to make informed decisions that push their business forward. We provide a user-friendly and intuitive platform that makes it easy to turn insights into action and fosters a culture of creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
You will be an essential part of this mission, using your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges. You'll work with a collaborative, customer-focused swarming team who values solving problems, initiative and creativity, using your skills to enhance the account teams and either drive important opportunities to a tech win, or help customers get value from their Databricks deployments on an accelerated time-scale.
You will report to the Solution Architect Manager in Field Engineering.
Location: Zurich.
The impact you will have:
- Take to success key new opportunities or help customers realize value from Databricks, working in collaboration with the account team’s Account Executive and Solutions Architect.
- Gain excitement from clients about Databricks through hands-on evaluation and Spark programming, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications.
- Be part of the team responding to important RFP/RFI’s.
- Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-to’s, and demo applications.
- Help build the Databricks technical community through engagement at workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
- Develop both technically and in the pre-sales aspect with the goal of becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect.
What we look for:
- Familiarity working with clients, creating a narrative for Databricks value, answering customer questions, have initiative and skills solving problems to quickly address the customer needs in key engagements.
- Collaborate with the accounts’ Account Executive and Solution Architect, taking the lead in driving forward the relevant scenarios.
- Craft compelling technical solutions, address customers' pain-points, and explain how to get value from Databricks, and ability to reach the end-goals in a short timeframe.
- Coding experience (i.e., Python, Java, SQL).
- Knowledgeable in the core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform.
- 3 or more years of experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design.
Benefits
- Life, accident and disability insurance
- Pension Plan
- Equity awards
- Enhanced Parental Leaves
- Fitness reimbursement
- Annual career development fund
- Home office & work headphones reimbursement
- Business travel accident insurance
- Mental wellness resources
- Employee referral bonus
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.
Benefits
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At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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