Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Warehousing

Databricks
Seoul, South Korea
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have hands-on experience with large-scale data warehousing and cloud migration. This role is based in Seoul and emphasizes technical leadership and collaboration with Solution Architects.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years in data warehousing and cloud migration experience
    — “5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in data warehousing”
  • Professionals who can lead evaluations and migrations for enterprise customers
    — “Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful cloud transformations”
  • Individuals with native Korean proficiency and strong BI tool integration background
    — “Native proficiency in Korean is a must, and business-level English is preferred”

Things to consider

  • Must be fluent in Korean and able to work with enterprise clients in South Korea
    — “Native proficiency in Korean is a must”
  • Commitment to technical training and achieving role-specific outcomes within six months
    — “Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with performance tuning and production migrations in your resume
    — “Experience scaling large analytical data warehouse workloads in the cloud that are performant and cost-effective”
  • Emphasize your ability to design and implement data warehousing systems with governance and BI tool integration
    — “Maintained, extended, or migrated a production data warehouse system to evolve with complex needs, including data modeling, data governance needs, and integration with business intelligence tools”
  • Showcase your customer-facing technical sales experience, especially with cloud data platforms
    — “2 years customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role”
  • Demonstrate your expertise in SQL and Python or Java for UDF development in interviews
    — “Production programming experience in SQL and Python, or Java for developing UDFs”
  • Include any Databricks certification or training in your application materials
    — “Nice to have: Databricks Certification”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • successful customer transformations
  • technical expertise
  • community contribution
Typical background
data warehousing experiencecloud technologies

Skills & requirements

Required

Data WarehousingCloud ArchitecturePerformance TuningData ModelingTechnical Leadership

Preferred

Migration WorkloadsBig Data Technologies

Stack & domain

Data WarehousingPerformance TuningData ModelingCloud TechnologiesTechnical LeadershipProblem SolvingTrainingCloud Data WarehousingLakehouse Architecture

About the role

Original posting from Databricks

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As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Warehousing, you will guide customers in their cloud data warehousing transformation with Databricks which span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, that requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data warehousing technologies and lakehouse architecture. SSAs help customers through evaluations and successful production planning for their business intelligence workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in the data warehousing specialty - including performance tuning, data modeling, winning evaluations, architecture design, and production migration planning.

The impact you will have:

Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful cloud transformations on large-scale data warehousing workloads - ranging from evaluation to architecture design to production deployment

Prove the value of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for customer workloads by architecting production workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization

Become a technical expert in an area such as data warehousing evaluations or helping set up successful workload migrations

Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing and performance, and tuning workloads for production

Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)

Contribute to the Databricks Community

What we look for:

5+ years experience in a technical role with expertise in data warehousing - such as query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, query conversion, debugging MPP data warehouses or other big data solutions, or migration workloads from EDW or other systems

Experience with design and implementation of data warehousing technologies including relational databases, SQL, data analytics,, MPP, and OLAP

Deep Specialty Expertise in at least one of the following areas:

Experience scaling large analytical data warehouse workloads in the cloud that are performant and cost-effective

Maintained, extended, or migrated a production data warehouse system to evolve with complex needs, including data modeling, data governance needs, and integration with business intelligence tools

Experience migrating on-premise EDW workloads to the public cloud

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience

Production programming experience in SQL and Python, or Java for developing UDFs

Experience with the AWS, Azure, or GCP clouds

2 years professional experience with data warehousing and big data technologies (Ex: SQL, Redshift, SAP, Synapse, Snowflake, OLAP & OLTP workloads)

2 years customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role

Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Native proficiency in Korean is a must, and business-level English is preferred

Nice to have: Databricks Certification

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.

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