Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Warehousing
About this role
Professionals who thrive in customer-facing technical environments and possess deep expertise in large-scale data warehousing will find a strong fit as a Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks in Seoul. Reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, the incoming architect guides strategic customers through cloud transformations and business intelligence workload evaluations. Daily efforts center on architecting production workloads, optimizing pipeline performance, and helping general Solution Architects navigate advanced technical sales scenarios.
Databricks builds the Data Intelligence Platform relied upon by thousands of organizations to unify data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. The team focuses on scaling analytical data warehouse operations, designing robust architectures, and planning seamless production migrations from legacy systems. Success in the role requires native proficiency in Korean, strong communication skills for community tutorials, and the technical aptitude to complete role-specific training objectives within six months.
What you will do
- Provide technical leadership to strategic customers for cloud transformations involving large-scale data warehousing workloads.
- Demonstrate platform value through production architecture design, end-to-end pipeline load performance testing, and system optimization.
- Assist Solution Architects with advanced technical sales components including custom proof of concept development and workload sizing estimates.
- Establish deep specialty expertise in areas such as performance tuning, data modeling, and production migration planning.
- Deliver tutorials, training sessions, hackathons, and conference presentations to foster community adoption.
- Contribute directly to the broader Databricks Community through technical engagement and shared knowledge.
What you need
- Bring five or more years of technical experience focused on data warehousing, query tuning, troubleshooting, or MPP data warehouse migration.
- Demonstrate hands-on design and implementation capability with relational databases, SQL, data analytics, MPP, and OLAP technologies.
- Possess specialized experience scaling cloud analytical data warehouses, maintaining production data systems, or executing on-premise EDW migrations.
- Write production-grade code in SQL alongside Python or Java for user-defined functions.
- Work comfortably within public cloud environments including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Complete two years of professional experience with data warehousing and big data technologies alongside two years in a customer-facing pre-sales or post-sales capacity.
- Communicate natively in Korean while maintaining business-level English proficiency.
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or possess equivalent practical work experience.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certification
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What language proficiency is required for this position?
Native proficiency in Korean is a must for the role, and business-level English is preferred.
Where is the position located?
The role is based in Seoul, South Korea.
Who does this role report to?
The Specialist Solutions Architect reports directly to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager.
What level of experience is expected?
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in a technical role with expertise in data warehousing, along with 2 years of professional experience with data warehousing and big data technologies and 2 years of customer-facing experience.