Partner Solutions Architect

About the role

Databricks is hiring a Partner Solutions Architect in Tokyo to support its Consulting and System Integrator (C&SI) partners, teammates and the technical and sales teams that work with customers. You will act as a trusted advisor to C&SI partners, developing technical champions within them and helping customers achieve data-driven outcomes with the Databricks Data + AI Platform. You will report to the AVP, FDE.

Key responsibilities

• Enable partners so they can help their clients evaluate and adopt Databricks, including hands-on Apache Spark programming and integration with the wider cloud ecosystem
• Engage with the partner technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups
• Share Big Data Analytics expertise on architecture and design with the partner network
• Show expertise by creating technical solutions and blog posts

Required profile

• 5+ years of pre-sales or post-sales experience with external clients or partners across various industries
• Core strength in data engineering or data science
• Experience presenting technical concepts, including whiteboarding
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent experience
• Full professional proficiency in Japanese is mandatory; business-level English is preferred

Required skills

• Public cloud architecture and implementation (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Coding in SQL, Python, Scala or Java
• At least one of: Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS, pandas, scikit-learn, HPO