Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Manufacturing

At Databricks, our core principles 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.

As a Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) in the Benelux Field Engineering team, you will be an essential part of this mission, using your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Data Intelligence Platform can help customers in the Manufacturing industry solve their complex data challenges. You'll work with a collaborative, customer-focused team who values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customised 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!

The impact you will have:

• Create impactful and successful relationships with customer accounts in your assigned territory, in the Manufacturing industry sector for Benelux, providing technical and business value to Databricks customers in collaboration with the extended team.
• Become the trusted advisor of your customer on the Data and AI landscape by successfully driving and delivering the adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
• 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.

What we look for:

• Experienced in customer interactions in a technical pre-sales capacity and adept at managing complex sales lifecycles. Adept skillset 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.
• Industry experience working with clients in the Manufacturing sector is nice to have but not mandatory for this position. We are more interested in your curiosity and willingness to learn!
• Ability to provide technical solutions for specialised customer needs, navigate a competitive landscape and effectively develop relationships to achieve long-term customer success.
• Hands-on expertise with complex Big Data architecture design for public cloud platform(s) solutions, focusing on use cases in Data Warehousing and Data Engineering architecture and implementation. Data Science and Machine Learning skills will be advantageous.
• Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, SQL etc.) and willingness to learn Apache Spark™. We will also be looking to assess your skills with AI-assisted coding and tooling.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Databricks, AWS, Microsoft, GCP, or other relevant platforms) and certifications will be advantageous.

Notes on the role:

• This will be an office-based contract (Amsterdam), with a hybrid schedule.
• An initial 12-month fixed-term contract is to be offered, with the expectation of extending/converting to FTE upon successful completion of the probation period.

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.

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