Solutions Architect - Kansai Region

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As a Pre‑sales Solutions Architect (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud) – Kansai Region, your mission will be to drive successful technical evaluations and solution designs for some of our focus customers in the Kansai region (Osaka/Kyoto) for Databricks Japan. You are passionate about data and AI, love getting hands‑on with technology, and enjoy communicating its value to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Partnering closely with Account Executives, you will lead the technical discovery, architecture design, and proof‑of‑concept phases, and act as a trusted advisor to our customers on their data and AI strategy. You will help customers realize tangible, data‑driven outcomes on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform by guiding data and AI teams to design, build, and operationalize solutions within their enterprise ecosystem. You will also be a key technical voice back into our product and field teams, championing customer needs from the Kansai market. You will report to the Manager of Field Engineering.

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

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

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.