Databricks is looking for a Resident Solutions Architect-Public Sector to join our Professional Services team. In this role, you will work directly with clients on short to medium-term engagements to solve their most significant big data challenges using the Databricks platform, delivering data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects that integrate with their systems.

What You'll Do

Work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects including designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's, and productionalizing customer use cases.
Work with engagement managers to scope a variety of professional services work with input from the customer.
Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects and 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build, and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications.
Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects leading to successful understanding, evaluation, and adoption of Databricks.
Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect, and Customer team to ensure technical components meet customer needs.
Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and guide rapid resolution for engagement-specific issues.

What We're Looking For

6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics.
Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.
Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
Working knowledge of MLOps.
Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures.
Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
Documentation and white-boarding skills.
Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
U.S. Citizenship is required for this position.
Ability to travel to customers 20% of the time.

Nice to Have

Databricks Certification.
Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.