Delivery Solutions Architect

About the role

Databricks is hiring a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA) in Tokyo. The DSA partners with Sales, Solutions Architecture and Field Engineering to accelerate adoption and growth of the Databricks platform, acting as a trusted technical advisor who helps customers design, implement, scale and optimize data and AI solutions. It is a technical, customer-facing role focused on architecture, technical strategy and customer outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Define and influence technical execution strategies across complex use cases and workstreams in strategic accounts
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer technical leads and architects, leading architecture discussions and guiding technical decisions
• Design secure, governed and scalable Databricks architectures that balance performance, cost, reliability and long-term needs
• Build and demonstrate working solutions, prototypes and reusable technical assets
• Anticipate platform maturity and scaling needs and establish best practices for security, governance and operational excellence
• Drive adoption and consumption by influencing architecture, unblocking delivery and connecting technical execution to business outcomes
• Partner across Databricks, customer and implementation teams to align resources, manage risks and accelerate delivery
• Mentor peers and share reusable technical guidance and enablement

Required profile

• 5+ years in solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical consulting, professional services, data engineering or a related technical role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience
• Full professional proficiency in Japanese is mandatory
• Nice to have: Databricks experience or certification, AWS/Azure/GCP experience, and business-level English

Required skills

• Strong coding in Python, SQL or similar languages
• Deep understanding of distributed data systems, data engineering, analytics, data warehousing, AI/ML and modern cloud architectures
• Experience designing secure, governed, scalable and production-ready data solutions
• Experience leading architecture discussions with technical leads, architects and senior customer stakeholders

Travel of up to 30% is needed. The interview process runs from recruiter screen through reference check.