Senior Solutions Architect
- Level
- Lead
- Work type
- Hybrid · Bengaluru
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
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As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem.
You'll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems
Reporting to the Field Engineering Leader, you will collaborate with our most strategic prospects and customers, work directly with product and engineering to drive the Databricks roadmap forward, and work with the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform. You will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions along the way.
This is a Hybrid role, based in Bengaluru.
The impact you will have:
- You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
- You will work directly with the sales team to develop your book of business, define account strategies, and execute those strategies to help your customers and prospects solve their business problems with Databricks.
- Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
- Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
- Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.
What we look for:
- 15+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
- 10+ years of experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others
- Strong consulting / customer facing experience , working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
- Coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark™ or Scala
- Experience building distributed data systems
- Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Available to travel to customers in your region
- Nice to have: Databricks Certification
Databricks's standard text
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Cassandra · Delta Lake · Hadoop · MLflow
Rare in Databricks's other 299 open postings.
Standard for solutions / sales engineering roles
Python
Common in solutions / sales engineering postings at any company.
In most of Databricks's ads
Unity
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
70% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Databricks's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Databricks's other open postings on this site.
The team: Field Engineering - FE Direct Emerging HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 15 open in Field Engineering - FE Direct Emerging. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Databricks (15 of 15), Unity (15 of 15), Machine Learning (10 of 15), Python (10 of 15), Spark (8 of 15), AWS (6 of 15), SQL (6 of 15)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business, Named Accounts posted Oct 8
- Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business (Fintech) posted Oct 7
- Manager, Field Engineering - Strategic Digital Native Business posted Oct 2
- Director, Field Engineering Emerging Enterprises & Startups posted Sep 18
- Sr. Solutions Engineer - Digital Native Business (Strategic Accounts) posted Sep 18
- Field Engineering Manager, Specialist Solutions Architects posted Sep 10
- Sr. Solutions Architect posted Sep 1
- Sr. Solutions Architect posted Sep 1
- Sr. Solutions Architect posted Sep 1
- Sr. Solutions Architect - Agencies posted Aug 31
- Sr. Manager, Field Engineering posted Aug 20
- Solutions Architect - Strategic High Tech posted Aug 19
- Sr. Solutions Architect posted Aug 13
- Manager, Field Engineering - Strategic Digital Native Business posted Apr 3
From the team and dates on Databricks's own job board.
Other openings for this role
2 open postings for this role in Bengaluru, India, first posted 3 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 3 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 3 October 2026 – open
Salary context
12 other open postings titled Senior Solutions Architect state a salary: median USD 159,687 to USD 213,125 a year.
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