Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) - Digital Native

Req ID: FEQ427R294
Location: Tokyo, Japan

As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud), you will guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands-on environment throughout the sales process. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the Digital Native field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our The Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. You'll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems. You will report to the Manager of Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
• Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
• Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups
• Together with your Account Executive, you will form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value

What we look for:

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients 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 advantageous
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
• Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
• Experience working with Enterprise Accounts
• Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English