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Sr. Solutions Engineer

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Location
Chicago, IL
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Job overview

The Senior Solutions Engineer leads customer technical engagements, including discovery, solution design, platform demonstrations, and proofs of concept. The role combines coding, architecture, and customer-facing work to support Databricks adoption and platform growth. It partners with Account Executives on technical strategies, navigates competitive landscapes, and contributes reusable technical assets to the broader solutions architecture community.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Python, requiredSQL, requiredCloud Data Solutions, requiredDistributed Data Systems, requiredTechnical Discovery, requiredWhiteboarding, requiredArchitecture Reviews, requiredData Engineering, requiredETL/ELT, requiredMedallion Architecture, requiredStreaming, requiredData Science, requiredMachine Learning, requiredModel Training, requiredMLOps, requiredSQL Analytics, requiredPresentation Skills, requiredDemonstration Skills, requiredDatabricks Platform, nice to haveUnity Catalog, nice to haveLakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, nice to haveMLflow, nice to have

Qualifications

4+ Years Relevant Experience, requiredBachelor's or Master's in CS, Engineering, or Quantitative Discipline or Equivalent Experience, requiredDatabricks Certification, nice to have

Full job description

Sr. Solutions Engineer

Req FEQ128R76

The Role

As a Sr. Solutions Engineer, you will independently lead technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations. You are a builder who can code, architect, and present—combining technical depth with customer-facing skills to drive Databricks adoption. You will own frontline customer relationships and work with your Account Executive to develop technical strategies that expand platform usage.

The Impact You Will Have

  • Independently lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads spanning data engineering, analytics, and machine learning

  • Build and deliver compelling proofs-of-concept and live demos on the Databricks Platform that drive technical wins

  • Own frontline technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads

  • Develop account-level technical strategies in partnership with your Account Executive to grow platform consumption

  • Navigate competitive landscapes by articulating Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations

  • Contribute reusable technical assets (notebooks, solution accelerators, reference architectures) to the broader SA community

What We Look For

  • 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a hands-on consulting role

  • Proficient in Python and SQL with demonstrated ability to debug, optimize, and write production-quality code — live coding is a required interview stage

  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing data solutions on at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

  • Working knowledge of distributed data systems: Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, or equivalent (Hadoop, Kafka, Flink)

  • Experience leading technical customer conversations — discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews

  • Familiarity with one or more: data engineering (ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, streaming), data science/ML (model training, MLOps), or SQL analytics

  • Strong presentation and demo skills — you will build and present a live solution during the interview

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience)

Nice to Have:

  • Databricks certification or experience with the Databricks Platform

  • Experience with Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, or MLflow

  • Background at a data/AI company, cloud provider, or technical consulting firm

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

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

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.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,493 open Solutions Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Illinois median$131–215K/yr37 salary ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 44 open Solutions Engineer jobs in Illinois and 1,493 across the US. 26% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Solutions Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,150 postings).
Education
254 of the 1,493 open Solutions Engineer jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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