Sr. Delivery Solutions Architect
Databricks
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Description
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At Databricks, we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data problems by utilizing the the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a Sr. Delivery Solutions Architect (Sr. DSA), you will play an important role during this journey. You will collaborate with our sales and field engineering teams to accelerate the adoption and growth of the Databricks platform in your customers. You will also help ensure customer success by increasing focus and technical accountability to our most complex customers who need guidance to accelerate usage on Databricks workloads that they have already selected, helping them maximise the value they get of our platform and the return on investment.
This is a hybrid technical and commercial role. It is commercial in the sense that you will drive growth in your assigned customers and use cases through leading your customers' stakeholders, building executive relationships, orchestration of other focused/specialized teams within Databricks, and creating and driving plans and strategies for Databricks colleagues to build upon. This is in parallel to being technical, with expectations being that you become the post-sale technical lead across all Databricks products. This requires you to use your skills and technical credibility to engage and communicate at all levels with an organisation. You will report directly to a Field Engineering Manager.
The impact you will have:
- Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritised customers
- Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
- Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume Databricks
- Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to production/go live status of agreed upon use cases within an account, oftentimes services multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations
- Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services and Support resources, along with escalating to expert level technical experts to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise
- Create, own and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals
- Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews and upgrade needs
- Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the below work streams:
- Main use cases moving from ‘win’ to production
- Enablement / user growth plan
- Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Databricks’ Lakehouse vision)
- Organic needs for current investment (e.g. cloud cost control, tuning & optimization)
- Executive and operational governance
- Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important risks, product adoption and use case progression - to your Technical GM
What we look for:
- 8+ years of experience where you have been accountable for technical project / program delivery within the domain of Data and AI and where you can contribute to technical debate and design choices with customers
- Programming experience in Python, SQL or Scala
- Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, customer success, or consulting role
- Understanding of solution architecture related distributed data systems
- Understanding of how to attribute business value and outcomes to specific project deliverables
- Technical program, or project management including account, stakeholder and resource management accountability
- Experience resolving complex and important escalation with senior customer executives
- Experience conducting open-ended discovery workshops, creating strategic roadmaps, conducting business analysis and managing delivery of complex programmes/projects
- Track record of overachievement against quota, Goals or similar objective targets
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
- Can travel up to 30% when needed
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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About this role
Databricks is seeking a Sr. Delivery Solutions Architect for their Singapore office to bridge the gap between post-sale technical execution and commercial growth with their largest, most complex customers. In this hybrid role, you'll own the technical strategy and accountability for moving customers' Databricks workloads from decision to production, acting as the primary technical leader across multiple use cases and internal teams. You'll coordinate with Solutions Architects, Professional Services, Support, and product teams to drive adoption, manage escalations, and ensure customers maximize their return on investment.
This position demands both technical depth and commercial acumen. You'll need 8+ years of experience in data and AI project delivery, with programming skills in Python, SQL, or Scala, and a proven track record in customer-facing technical roles—whether pre-sales, architecture, customer success, or consulting. Beyond technical credibility, you should be comfortable conducting discovery workshops, building executive relationships, managing complex stakeholder dynamics, and creating strategic roadmaps that translate business outcomes into delivery plans.
The role suits someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys orchestrating cross-functional teams, and has demonstrated success meeting or exceeding ambitious targets. You'll report to a Field Engineering Manager and travel up to 30% as needed. A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience is required.
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