Senior Pre-sales Solutions Architect (Communications, Media & Entertainment)

Senior Solutions Architect

Location: London, United Kingdom

Industry: Communications, Media and Entertainment

Impact You Will Have

• Develop customer engagement strategies in partnership with Account Executives in your designated territory.
• Coach junior Solutions Architects and teams on use case prioritisation and building technical champions.
• You will influence stakeholders at all levels through complex engagements with the wider cloud ecosystem and third‑party applications, ensuring they are excited by the Databricks vision and solution strategy.
• Be a \”champion\” for both customers and colleagues, operating as an expert solution architect and trusted advisor for significant data‑analytics architecture, design, and adoption of the Databricks Lakehouse platform.
• Contribute to Databricks\’ technical community engagement by developing customer‑facing collateral and leading workshops, seminars, and meet‑ups.
• Opportunity to continue your development in one of four tracks – technical specialisation, industry vertical thought leadership, strategic customer vision, and people management.

What We Look For

• Know how to engage in complex customer interactions and sales lifecycle in a technical pre‑sales capacity.
• Will be working in any of the following vertical sectors within the Communications, Media and Entertainment industry.
• Experience, technical customer‑facing with a background in Data Science, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Data Warehousing or Data Engineering.
• Ability to influence decision‑makers and C‑level executives through developing relationships and orchestrating teams to achieve long‑term success for customers.
• Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (e.g., Python, PySpark or SQL) and willingness to learn a base level of Spark.
• Hands‑on expertise with complex proofs‑of‑concept and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Know how to provide technical solutions for specialised customer needs and navigate a competitive landscape.
• The role requires travel to customer sites in the UK and to London offices. Travelling approximately 20‑30% of the time.
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification.

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.

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Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Compliance

If access to export‑controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer\’s discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.