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You will bring experience as an architect on large, complex, multinational accounts, and your mission will be to drive the technical and consumption strategy for one of the world's most notable life science companies. This will be driven in partnership with regional account executives and the global account team.\nAs a Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks, you will come with an informed and compelling point of view on the Data, Analytics and AI space, which will guide your technical strategy and, together with our teams and partners, allow you to provide exceptional value and build lasting trust with executives and technical champions at the account.\nThe Impact You Will Have\nDrive the technical and consumption strategy for the organisation's most complex customer engagements, directly influencing platform adoption and revenue growth.\nOwn senior-level technical relationships - serving as a trusted advisor on enterprise data and AI strategy.\nLead the most complex architecture engagements: multi-workload platforms, enterprise-wide migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale, including GenAI and agentic AI workflows (Agent Bricks, AI Functions, LLMOps).\nOperate as an Expert on the Databricks Platform with a declared archetype - actively mentoring others and driving horizontal impact across your team.\nDevelop and execute competitive strategies for your customers, positioning Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms.\nOrchestrate cross-functional teams (Delivery & Specialist SAs, Partners, Product) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.\nCoach and develop junior engineers/architects on technical depth, customer engagement, and use case prioritisation.\nContribute to Field Engineering thought leadership through customer-facing content, workshops, and community engagement.\nWhat We Look For\n8+ years of experience in a global/cross-region, multi-architect account team, combining solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership in a customer-facing capacity.\nStrong hands-on technical background and coding proficiency - Python, SQL, and ideally Spark/PySpark. You will complete a live coding assessment and a platform/prototype build during the interview process.\nDeep expertise in enterprise data architecture: distributed systems at scale, streaming/real-time, lakehouse design patterns, data governance frameworks, and cloud-native platforms.\nExpert-level data platform knowledge (either in Databricks or a similar modern data & AI platform with demonstrated rapid learning ability).\nRecognised as an expert in technical specialisation - e.g., real-time architectures, ML/AI platforms, data governance, large-scale migrations, or industry-specific solutions.\nExecutive presence - ability to influence Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders on long-term data and AI strategy; proven value-based selling and vision-generation skills; ability to lead competitive displacements and complex enterprise evaluations.\nStrong strategic thinking - connecting technical architecture decisions to business outcomes and revenue impact. Proven track record of driving consumption growth and platform adoption in large accounts.\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience); advanced degrees are valued.\nNice to Have:\nDatabricks certifications.\nPrior experience at Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or a top-tier data/AI company, ideally within Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS)/Pharma vertical.\nPublished thought leadership (blogs, conference talks, open source contributions).\nLife Sciences industry vertical expertise with executive-level domain credibility, ideally GxP experience in a pharma setting.\nAbout Databricks\nDatabricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide - including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. 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