Senior Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Life Sciences

The role

You will drive technical and consumption strategy for complex life science customer engagements. You will serve as a trusted advisor on enterprise data and AI strategy and lead architecture engagements including migrations and AI/ML at scale.

What you will do

• Drive technical and consumption strategy for complex customer engagements
• Own senior-level technical relationships as a trusted advisor
• Lead complex architecture engagements including multi-workload platforms and migrations
• Operate as an Expert on the Databricks Platform and mentor others
• Develop and execute competitive strategies for customers
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions
• Coach and develop junior engineers and architects
• Contribute to Field Engineering thought leadership

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a global/cross-region, multi-architect account team
• Experience in solutions architecture, principal engineering, or technical pre-sales leadership in a customer-facing capacity
• Strong hands-on technical background and coding proficiency in Python and SQL
• Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture including distributed systems, streaming/real-time, lakehouse design patterns, data governance frameworks, and cloud-native platforms
• Expert-level data platform knowledge in Databricks or a similar modern data & AI platform
• Recognised as an expert in technical specialisation
• Executive presence to influence Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders
• Proven value-based selling and vision-generation skills
• Strong strategic thinking connecting technical architecture to business outcomes
• Proven track record of driving consumption growth and platform adoption in large accounts
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience)

Nice to have

• Databricks certifications
• Prior experience at Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or a top-tier data/AI company, ideally within Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS)/Pharma vertical
• Published thought leadership (blogs, conference talks, open source contributions)
• Life Sciences industry vertical expertise with executive-level domain credibility, ideally GxP experience in a pharma setting
• Advanced degrees

Before you apply

• You will complete a live coding assessment and a platform/prototype build during the interview process

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.