Senior Pre-sales Solutions Architect (Communications, Media & Entertainment) in City of London

Location: London, United Kingdom

Industry: Communications, Media and Entertainment

At Databricks, our core values are at the heart of everything we do; creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer‑centric mindset guides us to create a unified platform that makes data science 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 Databricks Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges. You will work with a collaborative, customer‑focused team that values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customised solutions to help our customers achieve their goals and guide their businesses forward.

Reporting to the Manager, Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

• Develop customer engagement strategies in partnership with Account Executive(s) 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 3rd 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.
• You will be working in any of the following vertical sectors within the Communications, Media and Entertainment Industry.
• Experience, technical customer‑facing and with a background in Data Science / Generative AI / Machine Learning / Data Warehousing or Data Engineering.
• Ability to influence influential 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 (i.e., 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 approx. 20‑30% of the time.

Nice to have: Databricks Certification

About Databricks: Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organisations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratise 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.

Benefits: At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our 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.

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