Req #: P-1372
Location: Tokyo, Japan

As a Partner Solutions Architect you will work with Databricks' Consulting and System Integrator (C&SI) partners, teammates, and with the technical and sales team members who work directly with our customers. You will develop 'technical champions' within our top C&SI Partners, providing enablement on technical matters related to the Databricks product. Working with our partners, you will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Data + AI Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. As a member of our team, you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark™, MLflow, and Delta Lake; and major public cloud infrastructure and services. the product. You will use this expertise to become a trusted advisor to C&SI partners. You will report to the AVP, FDE. 

The impact you will have:

• Provide partners with the level of enablement they need to assist their clients in evaluating and adopting 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
• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design and will share this with our partner network
• Show expertise by producing creative technical solutions and blog post

What we look for:

• 5+ years of pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients or partners across a variety of industry markets
• Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either data engineering or data science
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Coding experience in SQL / Python / Scala / Java 
• Expertise in at least one of the following:
  • Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Apache Spark™, Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
  • Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Full professional proficiency in Japanese is mandatory; business-level English proficiency is preferred.

About Databricks

Databricks 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. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

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