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Pre-sales Solutions Engineer (DE, DWH or ML/AI)

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London, Greater London, England
Mid level
London, Greater London, England
Mid level
As a Pre-sales Solutions Engineer at Databricks, you'll leverage your technical expertise to engage with clients, demonstrate the Databricks platform, and create customized solutions for complex data challenges. You will work closely with Account Executives and Senior Solutions Architects, contribute to technical workshops, and become a trusted advisor in Big Data Analytics.
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Req ID: FEQ326R220

Recruiter: Dina Hussain

Location: London

Industry sectors we have roles in:

  • Communications, Media and Entertainment
  • Gaming, Gambling
  • Utilities (Energy, Water, Electricity)
  • Manufacturing, Industrial, Travel, Transport, Automotive, Aviation and Logistics
  • Consumer Package Goods (CPG) / Retail
  • Across all vertical sectors. 

At Databricks, our core values are at the heart of everything we do; creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer-centric mindset guides us to create a unified platform that makes data science and analytics accessible to everyone. We aim to inspire our customers to make informed decisions that push their business forward. We provide a user-friendly and intuitive platform that makes it easy to turn insights into action and fosters a culture of creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement. You will be an essential part of this mission, using your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Databricks Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges. You'll work with a collaborative, customer-focused team that values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customized solutions to help our customers achieve their goals and guide their businesses forward. Join us in our quest to change how people work with data and make a better world!

You will be reporting to the Manager, Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

  • Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value in collaboration with an Account Executive and a Senior Solutions Architect.
  • Gain excitement from clients about Databricks through hands-on evaluation and Spark programming, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications.
  • Contribute to building the Databricks technical through engagement at workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
  • Become a Big Data Analytics advisor on aspects of architecture and design.
  • Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.
  • Develop both technically and in the pre-sales aspect with the goal of becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect.

What we look for:

  • Experience, technical customer-facing and with a background in Data Engineering (Spark, Databricks, etc) and/or Data Warehousing (BI, DWH, SQL, PowerBI) or Data Science / Machine Learning skills.  
  • You will be working in the following any one of the following vertical sectors: 
    • Communications, Media and Entertainment
    • Gaming, Gambling
    • Utilities (Energy, Water, Electricity)
    • Manufacturing, Industrial, Travel, Transport, Automotive, Aviation and Logistics
    • Consumer Package Goods (CPG) / Retail
    • Across all vertical sectors. 
  • Any experience of Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients
  • Familiarity working with clients, creating a narrative, answering customer questions, aligning the agenda with important interests, and achieving tangible outcomes.
  • Ability to independently deliver a technical proposition, identify customers' pain points, and explain important areas for business value to develop a trusted advisor skillset.
  • Code in a core programming language such as Python, PySpark, SQL.
  • Knowledgeable in a core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design.
  • The role requires 30% travel to customer sites in the UK and to the London offices.
  • Nice to have: Databricks Certification


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.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks. 

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Bi
Databricks
Dwh
GCP
Power BI
Pyspark
Python
Spark
SQL

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