Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect (AI/ML)

The role

You will define the technical go to market strategy and drive AI product adoption in the Asia Pacific and Japan region. You will work with customers to guide data application architecture and act as a trusted advisor to senior executives.

What you will do

• Lead the vision and strategy for AI products adoption in Asia Pacific and Japan
• Develop materials for the GTM team to communicate value propositions
• Support field teams in key strategic pursuit opportunities
• Work with subject matter experts to scale impact in local regions
• Act as a thought leader to build relationships with customers at the executive level
• Present externally at conferences, events, and webinars and publish content
• Work with FDE teams and partners to establish best practices
• Act as a cross-functional representative with Product Management, Product Marketing and Engineering

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning
• 2+ years in production Gen AI
• Hands-on experience building solutions within major public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Trusted advisor to technical executives that inform strategic data decisions
• Proven ability to co-plan large territories with Account Executives
• Expertise in traditional Machine Learning methodologies
• Deployed large scale production systems
• Deep understanding of LLM application architectures (RAG, agentic, fine-tuning)
• Knowledge of agent frameworks (LangGraph / LlamaIndex / AutoGen / DSPy)
• Knowledge of eval methodology and foundational model markets (Claude, Llama, Mistral, OpenAI, open-source)
• Proven track record of successful pre-sales experience in competitive situations
• Ability to define and executive strategic program cross functionally

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.