Sr. Resident Solutions Architect (Migration Specialist)

Sr. Resident Solutions Architect (Migration Specialist) - Databricks

As a Migration Specialist within our Professional Services team in Singapore, you will be a trusted advisor focusing on helping customers successfully migrate from legacy data platforms to Databricks. This specialized Senior Resident Solutions Architect (Sr. RSA) role balances pre-sales engagements, enablement activities, and migration delivery work. You'll guide organizations through our proven migration methodology, from discovery and assessment to strategy development and execution, while sharing your expertise with the broader team to scale our migration capabilities.

The impact you will have:

Lead migration assessments and discovery sessions, utilizing automated analyzers to evaluate legacy workloads and estimate effort, cost, and ROI

Develop comprehensive migration strategies and roadmaps, including data migration approaches, ETL code conversion, and architectural blueprints

Consult on architecture and design, guiding strategic customers through transformational big data migrations from legacy platforms

Drive successful production pilot implementations that demonstrate the value of Databricks for customer use cases

Enable the broader PS team by developing best practices, methodology improvements, and reusable assets for migrations

Partner with Account Executives and Sales Engineers to support complex migration opportunities in pre-sales engagements

Share your migration expertise through knowledge transfer sessions, documentation, and mentoring junior team members

Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product feedback and guide resolution for migration-specific issues

What we look for:

10+ years of hands-on technical experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics

Proven experience migrating workloads from traditional data warehouses (Teradata, Oracle, Netezza, etc.) or other platforms to modern cloud-based solutions

Strong understanding of ETL/ELT design patterns and data pipeline architectures

Expertise with Databricks platform features including Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, and Unity Catalog

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their respective data services

Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language such as Python, Scala, or Java

Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

Strong consulting skills and ability to build trusted relationships with customers

Experience in the APJ market, particularly Singapore, is highly desirable

Background in pre-sales or customer-facing technical roles is a plus

This role will involve approximately 50% billable client work, with the remainder dedicated to pre-sales activities and team enablement. Regional travel within APJ may be required.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

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