Principal Architect/Solution Architect Senior Director (Databricks)

The Principal Solution Architect is a senior leadership role that blends hands-on delivery accountability with executive-level strategy. This role ensures solutions are not only well-designed, but successfully implemented and realized within client environments.

This individual serves as a trusted advisor to clients, owning the end-to-end solution lifecycle—from pre-sales through implementation—while driving technical excellence, client value, and business outcomes.
Client Leadership & Solution Strategy

- Serve as a strategic advisor to clients, aligning technical solutions with business objectives and long-term vision

- Lead solution design for complex, enterprise-scale engagements across multiple clients or industries

- Ensure all solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and technical strategy

- Act as the primary technical escalation point for assigned clients

Pre-Sales & Solution Development

- Lead technical pre-sales activities including discovery, solution framing, and proposal development

- Own scoping, estimation, and cost modeling for large and complex opportunities

- Review and validate proposals for technical integrity, feasibility, risk, and alignment to standards

- Deliver impactful technical presentations tailored to varying stakeholder audiences

Delivery & Implementation Oversight

- Own the transition from pre-sales to delivery, ensuring continuity and execution success

- Provide ongoing leadership and oversight throughout implementation

- Ensure solutions are scalable, optimized, and deliver measurable client value

- Drive successful adoption and realization of solutions within client environments

Thought Leadership & Continuous Improvement

- Develop and share technical best practices, frameworks, and reusable assets

- Act as a domain expert within assigned industries or solution areas

- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscape

- Identify and drive process improvements that enhance client outcomes and profitability

Collaboration & Mentorship

- Partner with internal product, engineering, and delivery teams to influence product direction

- Mentor and guide less experienced architects and team members

- Foster cross-functional alignment and promote standard methodologies and best practices

Core Competencies

- Deep expertise in enterprise solution architecture and design for complex systems

- Strong understanding of identity resolution (deterministic and probabilistic matching, offline/online stitching)

- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks , or similar

- Knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to large-scale data processing and analytics

- Experience designing real-time data architectures and Customer Data Platforms (CDP / Customer 360)

- Strong business acumen with the ability to communicate technical value to non-technical stakeholders

- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and leadership skills

Qualifications (Required)

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10+ years of combined experience in technical pre-sales and solution implementation

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10+ years of experience in client-facing roles, including executive-level engagement

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5+ years of experience in data-driven marketing environments (database, direct, or digital marketing)

- Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience

- Cloud platform expertise ( AWS, Azure, or GCP )

- Non-cloud to cloud migration strategies

- Snowflake, Databricks, or similar data platforms

- Clean room technologies

- Customer Data Platforms (CDP / Customer 360)

- Real-time data processing architectures

- AI/ML-enabled analytics solutions

Primary Location City/State:
Homebased - Conway, Arkansas Additional Locations (if applicable):

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