The posting, in Databricks's own words
archived Sep 9, 2026FEQ327R387 As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Warehousing, you will guide customers in their cloud data warehousing transformation with Databricks which span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, that requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data warehousing technologies and lakehouse architecture. SSAs help customers through evaluations and successful production planning for their business intelligence workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in the data warehousing specialty - including performance tuning, data modeling, winning evaluations, architecture design, and production migration planning.
The impact you will have:
Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful cloud transformations on large-scale data warehousing workloads - ranging from evaluation to architecture design to production deployment Prove the value of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for customer workloads by architecting production workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization Become a technical expert in an area such as data warehousing evaluations or helping set up successful workload migrations Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing and performance, and tuning workloads for production Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations) Contribute to the Databricks Community
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What we look for:
5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in data warehousing - such as query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, data governance, debugging MPP data warehouses or other big data solutions, or migration workloads from EDWother systems Experience with design and implementation of data warehousing technologies including relational databases, SQL, data analytics, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP Deep Specialty Expertise in at least one of the following areas: Experience scaling large analytical data workloads in the cloud that are performant and cost-effective Maintained, extended, or migrated a production data warehouse system to evolve with complex needs, including data modeling, data governance needs, and integration with business intelligence tools Experience migrating on-premise EDW workloads to the public cloud Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala, or Java Experience with the AWS, Azure, or GCP clouds 2 years professional experience with data warehousing and big data technologies (Ex: SQL, Redshift, SAP, Synapse, EMR, OLAP & OLTP workloads) 2 years customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire Can travel up to 30% when needed Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here . Zone 1 Pay Range $152,300 — $209,450 USD Zone 2 Pay Range $152,300 — $209,450 USD Zone 3 Pay Range $152,300 — $209,450 USD Zone 4 Pay Range $152,300 — $209,450 USD About Databricks Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , and Instagram .