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As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. These are customer-facing roles, working with and supporting the Solution Architects, requiring hands-on production experience with Apache Spark™ and expertise in other data technologies. SSAs help customers through design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for expanding the usage of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Field Engineering Manager for SSA, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in an area of specialty - whether that be performance tuning, machine learning, industry expertise, or more.

The impact you will have:

Provide technical leadership to guide customers in the Asean and Greater China Region for successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment
Architect production level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimisation
Provide technical expertise in an area such as data management, cloud platforms, data science, machine learning, or architecture
Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
Improve community adoption (through tutorials, training, hackathons, conference presentations)
Contribute to the Databricks Community

What we look for:

You will have experience in a customer-facing technical role with expertise in at least one of the following:
- Software Engineer/Data Engineer: query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions.
- Data Scientist/ML Engineer: model selection, model lifecycle, hyper parameter tuning, model serving, deep learning.
- Data Applications Engineer: Build use cases that use data - such as risk modelling, fraud detection, customer life-time value.
Experience with design and implementation of big data technologies such as Spark/Delta, Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP.
Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex needs.
Production programming experience in Python, R, Scala or Java
Deep Specialty Expertise in at least one of the following areas:
- Experience scaling big data workloads that are performant and cost-effective.
- Experience with Development Tools for CI/CD, Unit and Integration testing, Automation and Orchestration, REST API, BI tools and SQL Interfaces.
- Experience designing data solutions on cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP using best practises in cloud security and networking.
- Experience with ML concepts covering Model Tracking, Model Serving and other aspects of productionizing ML pipelines in distributed data processing environments like Apache Spark, using tools like MLflow.
Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
Comfortable with 20%-30% travelling

Benefits

Private medical, dental and optical
Life, accident, disability and critical illness coverage
Central Provident Fund for local nationals
Equity awards
Enhanced Parental Leaves
Fitness reimbursement
Annual career development fund
Home office & work headphones reimbursement
Business travel accident insurance
Mental wellness resources
Employee referral bonus

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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