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- Japan Tokyo, Japan
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Role Summary
The Pre-sales Solutions Architect supports technical evaluations and solution designs for Databricks focus customers in the Kansai region, including Osaka and Kyoto. The role works with Account Executives and customers on data and AI strategy and solution adoption.
What You'll Do
- Lead technical discovery, architecture design, and proof-of-concept phases for prospective customers.
- Guide customers through evaluating and adopting Databricks, including designing and operationalizing solutions in their enterprise...
- Author reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications, and integrate Databricks with third-party applications.
- Lead technical workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
- Build customer relationships with Account Executives and relay customer needs to product and field teams.
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The posting lists experience working with external clients across industries in pre-sales or post-sales, presenting and whiteboarding technical concepts, designing and implementing architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP, working with Big Data technologies (including Apache Spark, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, and Cassandra), and working with Enterprise Accounts. It also lists written and verbal fluency in Japanese.
Preferred
- Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous
- Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
Original job description
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Original job description
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Req ID: FEQ227R81
Location: Osaka, Japan
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.
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
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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About the company
Databricks
Large Enterprise
Databricks is a cloud-based data platform that specializes in providing solutions for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, the company enables organizations to unify data processing and analysis workflows, facilitating collaboration for data professionals. Databricks offers an integrated environment for data scientists, engineers, and business analysts, streamlining the process of building and deploying AI and data-driven applications. With a strong emphasis on simplifying big data management, Databricks helps businesses harness the power of their data to drive innovation and insights.