The posting, in Databricks's own words
archived Sep 27, 2026REQ ID: FEQ227R147 Location: United Kingdom (Remote/Hybrid — London or UK-based) Recruiter: Dina Hussain
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead Solution Architect focused on Generative AI to support our EMEA Emerging Digital Natives and Startups business unit — one of the fastest-moving, most technically ambitious patches in EMEA. Our customers are digital-native and cloud-native companies who build on the frontier: they adopt GenAI early, scale fast, and expect their technical partners to be as sharp as their own engineers. You will be the go-to expert our Account Teams and customers turn to when a GenAI or LLM use case needs to move from an ambitious idea to a production-grade reality across our high-growth accounts. This is a highly technical, customer-facing individual contributor role for someone who lives at the frontier of applied GenAI. You will shape architectures, prove out the hard problems, challenge and influence customer roadmaps, and raise the GenAI capability of the entire EMEA Emerging DNB field organisation.
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What You'll Do
Serve as the deep technical authority on Generative AI, LLMs, and applied machine learning for the EMEA Emerging DNB business unit, supporting the most strategic and complex customer engagements across our digital-native and born-in-the-cloud accounts. Partner with our EMEA Emerging DNB Solutions Architects, Solutions Engineers, and Account teams to scope, design, and de-risk GenAI use cases — from retrieval-augmented generation and systems to and evaluation. Build hands-on proofs of concept and reference implementations that operationalise large-scale and workloads on Databricks (Mosaic AI, MLflow, Model Serving, , Unity Catalog governance), tuned to the fast iteration cycles Emerging DNB customers expect. Lead and model-customisation engagements on open (e.g., Llama-family models), including judge-based and label-efficient evaluation approaches for domains where quality and safety are paramount. Act as a bridge to Product and Engineering — channel field and customer feedback into the roadmap and represent the roadmap back to the field. Enable and mentor the broader EMEA Emerging DNB Field Engineering team through workshops, reference architectures, and internal enablement, multiplying expertise across our ~70-person SA/SE organisation. Represent Databricks externally as a technical thought leader — conference talks (e.g., Data + AI Summit), blogs, and customer executive briefings.