Pre-sales Solutions Engineer (Emerging Enterprise)

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. 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 be reporting directly to the Manager of Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

• Create excitement from clients about Databricks with our rich offering of 1-many webinars, customer office hours, hands-on evaluation, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem, 3rd party applications and partners.
• Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory, working with account executives and wider Databricks stakeholders to provide technical and business value.
• Help build the Databricks technical footprint through engagement at business reviews, workshops, Data and GenAI events and meet-ups.
• Become a Big Data Analytics advisor on aspects of architecture and design.
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.
• Develop both technically and in the pre-sales aspect with the goal of becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect.
• You will advise our customers as a trusted advisor on how to best realize their Data and GenAI use cases.

What we look for:

• Experience, technical customer-facing and with a background in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing or Data Science / Machine Learning.
• Any experience of Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients.
• Familiarity working with clients, creating a narrative, answering customer questions, aligning the agenda with important interests, and achieving tangible outcomes.
• Ability to independently deliver a technical proposition, identify customers' pain points and explain important areas for business value to develop a trusted advisor skillset.
• Code in a core programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala.
• Knowledgeable in a core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) preference in AWS or Azure but not essential.
• Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design.
• The role requires travel to customer sites and ideally candidate is able to commute to London offices regularly.
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification.
• The candidate must be able to commute to London offices regularly and travelling approx. 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.

Benefits

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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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