Senior Solutions Engineer – Qatar & S.Africa Fly-in
Location: London, United Kingdom
Responsibilities:
- Create impactful and successful relationships with customer accounts across the regions, providing technical and business value to Databricks customers in collaboration with the extended team.
- Act as a trusted advisor to C-level executives, defining long-term Data & AI strategies, modernising platforms, and aligning technical vision with business outcomes to drive measurable impact and innovation.
- Lead strategic engagements, shaping Data & AI transformation roadmaps, fostering innovation partnerships, and driving account growth across territories in the regions.
- Scale best practices in your field by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications, and help build the Databricks community in your region by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
- Grow your knowledge and expertise to the level of a technical and/or industry specialist.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience engaging in technical customer interactions, preferably with direct pre‑sales and complex sales lifecycles experience. Relevant and transferable consulting experience can also be considered.
- Experience in use case discovery, scoping, and delivering complex solution architecture designs to multiple audiences, requiring an ability to switch context and/or levels of technical depth.
- Ability to dive deeper into solution architecture and Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Science use cases, combined with experience working on cloud platforms (e.g., Databricks, AWS, Microsoft, GCP, or other relevant platforms).
- Proficiency with Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, and Big Data Analytics technologies, including hands‑off expertise with sophisticated proofs‑of‑concept and public cloud platform(s).
- Coding expertise in a core programming language (Python, Java, Scala). Foundational understanding of Apache Spark architecture is preferable; hands‑on skills will be advantageous.
Key Notes for the role:
- Location for the role needs to be within a commutable distance of our office location for a hybrid schedule.
- Willingness to travel across the region(s) for customer visits & events on a regular basis (i.e. up to ~2 weeks per month).
- Ability to manage conversations with business and technical stakeholders, enabling partners and supporting internal events in the MEA region.
- Excellent communication skills in English required as a minimum.
Benefits
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