At Databricks, our core principles 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. As a Solutions Architect in the Benelux Field Engineering team, you will be an essential part of this mission, using your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges. You'll work with a collaborative, customer-focused team who values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customised solutions to help our customers achieve their goals and guide their businesses forward. Join us in our quest to change how people work with data and make a better world!
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Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy for accounts within the Benelux region - assessing a customer’s architecture and providing strategic guidance and deep technical expertise addressing problems that span multiple systems, teams, and stakeholders, from data & AI practitioners, business domains and all the way up to C-level.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving alignment through negotiations and ensuring long-term technical commitment.
- Abstract learnings from your builds into reusable patterns and guidance for the wider Databricks community, anticipating objections before they surface.
- Move beyond "proof of concept" to deliver outcomes the business can measure, using adoption signals to ensure sustained customer impact.
- Coach junior team members on technical discovery and complex use-case prioritization, helping the team maintain high standards at sustained velocity.
- Experience in customer interactions in a technical pre-sales capacity and adept at managing complex sales lifecycles.
- Adept skillset in use-case discovery, scoping, and delivering complex solution architecture designs to multiple audiences, requiring an ability to switch context and/or levels of technical depth.
- Deep expertise across the data landscape: including Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, and GenAI, with a strong "AI-Builder" mindset.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Databricks, AWS, Microsoft, GCP, or other relevant platforms) and certifications will be advantageous.
- Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, SQL etc.) and willingness to learn Apache Spark™.
- Ability to execute through ambiguity: a track record of identifying emerging risks early and mobilising others to act, even when full information is not available.
- Recognised as an experienced architect who can confidently lead technical discussions and solve high-complexity, multi-account architectural challenges.
- Excellent communication skills in English required as a minimum. Dutch language skills to a business-proficiency level will be advantageous.
This will be an office-based contract (Amsterdam), with a hybrid schedule. xayajpt An initial 12-month fixed-term contract is to be offered, with the expectation of extending/converting to FTE upon successful completion of the probation period.
