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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 445 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What Databricks paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Delivery Solutions Architect” (Sales Engineers) in CA: $144k–$169k, median $150k.
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Citizenship requirement statedFrom the posting’s own wording.
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Security clearance mentionedFrom the posting’s own wording.
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Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 445 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Databricks paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 4 certified filings for “Delivery Solutions Architect” (Sales Engineers) in CA: $144k–$169k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level III (67%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
CSQ427R325
PLEASE NOTE :
Due to federal contract requirements and client site access obligations, U.S. citizenship is required to access classified information.
Candidates must possess an active Top Secret Clearance and reside in the greater Huntsville, Alabama region.
Location: Remote - Huntsville, Alabama - with up to 30% Travel
At Databricks, we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data problems by utilizing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA), you will play an important role during this journey. You will collaborate with our sales and field engineering teams to accelerate the adoption and growth of the Databricks Platform in your customers. You will also help ensure customer success by increasing focus and technical accountability for our most complex customers who need guidance to accelerate usage of Databricks workloads they have already selected, helping them maximize the value they get from our platform and their return on investment.
This is a hybrid technical and commercial role. It is commercial in the sense that you will drive growth in your assigned customers and use cases through leading your customers' stakeholders, building executive relationships, orchestrating other focused/specialized teams within Databricks, and creating and driving plans and strategies for Databricks colleagues to build upon. This is in parallel with being technical, with the expectation that you become the post-sale technical lead across all Databricks products. This requires you to utilize your skills and technical credibility to engage and communicate effectively with all levels of an organization. You will report directly to a DSA Manager within the Field Engineering organization.
The impact you will have:
• Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritized customers
• Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
• Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live, and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume Databricks
• Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to the production/go-live status of agreed-upon use cases within an account, oftentimes services multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations
• Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services, and Support resources, along with escalating to expert-level technical experts, to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise
• Create, own, and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews, and upgrade needs
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the following work streams:
• Main use cases moving from ‘win’ to production
• Enablement/user growth plan
• Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Databricks’ Lakehouse vision)
• Organic needs for current investment (e.g. cloud cost control, tuning & optimization)
• Executive and operational governance
• Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important ris
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