Solutions Architect (Retail/CPG)

About this role

Responsibilities

• Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory, providing technical and business value to Databricks customers in collaboration with Account Executives.
• Operate as an expert in big data analytics to excite customers about Databricks. You will develop into a ‘champion’ and trusted advisor on architecture, design, and implementation to lead the successful adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
• Author reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications to scale best practices in your field and support customers. Lead workshops, seminars, and meet-ups to help build the Databricks community in your region and scale best practices in your field.
• Act as a hands-on technical advisor, helping customers design, validate, and adopt modern data and AI architectures on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
• Grow your knowledge and expertise to the level of a technical and/or industry specialist.
• Experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, or pre-sales, with a strong hands-on approach to solving customer problems.
• Strong capability in at least one or two of the following areas: Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, AI/ML, GenAI, AI Agents, or application development, with interest in expanding into adjacent areas over time.
• Exposure to domains such as CDP/Martech, customer data architectures, cybersecurity, or modern AI application patterns would be valuable, but is not required.
• You will work with customers in the enterprise space, focusing on the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry, but you will also consider the Retail industry.

Requirements

• Engage customers in technical sales, challenge their questions, guide clear outcomes, and communicate technical and value propositions.
• Develop customer relationships and build internal partnerships with account executives and teams.
• Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, SQL) and willingness to learn a base level of Spark.
• Hands-on experience with modern data and analytics technologies, including public cloud platforms and technical validation work such as prototypes or proofs of concept.
• Experienced in use case discovery, scoping, and delivering complex solution architecture designs to multiple audiences, requiring an ability to context switch in levels of technical depth.
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification
• The candidate must be able to commute to London offices regularly and travel approximately.
• 20-30% of the time across UK&I for customer visits

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.