Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, debug, and extend multiple internal and public infrastructure components of the Databricks Labs ecosystem, focusing on scalable and reliable backend services and automation. - Implement and maintain backend services, APIs, and automation tools that integrate with the Databricks platform and related ecosystems. - Author high-quality technical documentation, design proposals, and internal guides to scale knowledge and best practices across the organization. - Apply and contribute to engineering best practices, coding standards, and reusable patterns for Labs projects, ensuring consistent and maintainable solution delivery. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, propose technical approaches, and deliver projects. - Contribute to the evaluation, adoption, and integration of new technologies relevant to Databricks Labs and the automation tooling ecosystem. - Own the design and implementation of small to medium-sized projects end-to-end and partner with Lead Specialist Solutions Architects on larger, cross-team initiatives. - Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and incident response to improve reliability, observability, and developer experience for field teams. Qualifications Required:

• Experience delivering complex backend or infrastructure projects in iterative increments, balancing robustness and development speed. - Production experience of 6+ years in backend or infrastructure development, with proficiency in at least two of the following: Terraform, Scala, Go, Apache Spark, Java, Python; experience with at least one compiled language is required. - Passion for defensive programming and building highly scalable and reliable software. - Demonstrated fluency in modern AI and data technologies and proven experience integrating AI capabilities into production systems. - BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a track record of producing clear technical documentation, design proposals, and knowledge-sharing materials across teams. Role Overview: As a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect on the Builder Team, your main responsibility is to design, build, maintain, and support projects that integrate and extend the Databricks platform to accelerate data and AI use cases. Your role involves contributing to the roadmap for specific priority projects, evaluating partner solutions, and delivering high-quality, production-ready implementations. Additionally, you will be supporting the infrastructure used to maintain Databricks Labs, enabling field engineering teams to contribute to tooling efforts more effectively. The ideal candidate for this role should possess strong customer empathy, a product mindset, and the ability to translate tooling needs into robust backend systems. Key Responsibilities: