Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Benelux Strategic Accounts

The role

You will drive technical strategy for Benelux Strategic Accounts by owning architecture discussions and driving platform adoption. You will serve as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and design scalable solutions spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and real-time analytics.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end technical strategy with customer accounts
• Lead complex architecture discussions
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors
• Drive technical wins in competitive scenarios
• Develop and declare an emerging technical specialisation
• Orchestrate cross-functional resources to deliver solutions
• Influence product direction by providing feedback on customer requirements

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, technical pre-sales and/or a senior hands-on technical role
• Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL
• Deep expertise in distributed data systems architecture
• Proficient on the Databricks Platform or demonstrated ability to achieve proficiency rapidly
• Proven ability to lead architecture discussions with senior technical stakeholders
• Experience with production deployments on public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Track record of driving platform adoption and consumption growth within accounts
• Excellent communication skills
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience)

Nice to have

• Experience in Oil & Gas and/or Manufacturing industry domains
• Databricks certifications (Data Engineer, ML, Platform)
• Experience with competitive platforms (Snowflake, AWS native services, Azure Synapse)
• Background in a data/AI company or cloud provider

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.