Sr. Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality

Databricks

Atlanta, USremote country$219k-$301k/yrPosted Oct 21, 2025
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About the role

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We are looking for experienced pre-sales professionals with a proven track record of helping large enterprises become more data-driven. Working with the Account Executive (AE), the Retail and CPG Sr. SA defines and directs the technical strategy for our largest and most important accounts, leading to more widespread use of our products and wider and deeper adoption of ML & AI. You will lean upon your solid background in value selling, technical account management, and technical leadership to maximize success in these accounts. While you work with a team that includes hands-on resources who will build proofs of concept and demonstrate Databricks' products, you need to be technical and must understand the relevance and application of ML & AI within a range of use cases important to the target accounts in the Retail and CPG space.

The impact you will have:

You will work with 1-5 clients as the main technical voice for Databricks

You will lead your customers on a transformational journey, helping them to evaluate and adopt Databricks as part of their strategy

You will implement the technical strategy in the account, with a close understanding of the strategy

Build a movement of technical champions within the account

Align technical strategies around Databricks solutions

You will provide structured mentorship for other team members

What we look for:

8+ years of experience working in very large (> $1m ARR), from the Retail and CPG-related space

4+ years working in a pre-sales capacity or supporting sales activity

Technical in big data, data science, and cloud

An ability in data-driven business transformation and driving change with data

4+ years of experience with design and implementation experience in big data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP, or full lifecycle data science solutions

Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex customer needs

Production programming experience in Python, R, Scala, or Java

Nice to have: Databricks Certification

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Pay Range Transparency

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Local Pay Range

$219,100 - $301,300 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Compensation

This Solutions Architect role pays $219k-$301k/yr. Within typical range for solutions architect roles in United States.

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