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Director, Delivery Solutions Architects - Public Sector
Databricks · 🇺🇸 Maryland; Remote - Virginia; Remote - Washington D.C. · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Posting rules out sponsorship
The posting rules out sponsorship or requires citizenship/clearance.
- 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. USCIS also records 78 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- 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. 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 roles4 certified filings for “Sr. Delivery Solutions Engineer” (Sales Engineers) in NY: $128k–$182k, median $142k. Most were filed at wage level II (33%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Citizenship requirement statedFrom the posting’s own wording.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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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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. USCIS also records 78 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
CSQ427R326 Please note: Due to federal contract requirements and client-site access obligations, U.S. citizenship is required . As Director of Delivery Solution Architects (DSA), Public Sector, you will lead a high-impact post-sales technical organization that helps government customers realize value from the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Your mission is to ensure that complex Data and AI initiatives—across federal civilian, defense, intelligence, state and local government, education, and public-sector-adjacent organizations—move from concept to production as quickly, securely, and effectively as possible. You will lead DSA managers and a growing team of Delivery Solution Architects responsible for technical strategy, customer outcomes, platform adoption, and usage growth across the Public Sector. You will bridge technical strategy and durable customer value, ensuring teams guide customers through architecture decisions, implementation planning, and scalable operating models for data, analytics, AI, and agentic applications. You will make investment and coverage decisions in collaboration with regional Sales and Field Engineering leaders, shape the value proposition of the DSA function for Public Sector, and build an organization that delivers predictable customer outcomes in a complex, high-growth environment. The Impact You Will Have: • Build and lead: Recruit, coach, and scale a diverse, high-performing team of DSAs and managers. Foster a culture of psychological safety, collaboration, and customer obsession. • Define, operationalize, and continuously improve the post-sales execution strategy for Databricks’ Public Sector business. • Partner with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Professional Services, Customer Success, and strategic partners to align account plans, technical success plans, resource investments, and growth strategies. • Establish scalable account assignments, customer coverage, prioritization, capacity planning, and resource-allocation practices for strategic Public Sector accounts. • Standardize how DSAs guide customers from use-case discovery and architecture through implementation, production go-live, adoption, and platform expansion. • Lead a technically excellent DSA organization with deep expertise in cloud data platforms, data engineering, warehousing, ETL/ELT, streaming, governance, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic applications. • Ensure customers receive practical, secure, scalable architectural guidance for production data products, analytics platforms, AI applications, and mission-critical workloads. • Apply Public Sector-specific requirements—including security, compliance, governance, mission continuity, procurement, and complex stakeholder environments—to architecture and delivery decisions. • Serve as a trusted executive technical advisor for select strategic customers, linking technical roadmaps and modernization programs to agency missions and measurable outcomes. • Build strong executive and operational relationships across customer technical, program, procurement, operational, and leadership stakeholders to accelerate adoption and long-term value. • Create operating mechanisms, playbooks, metrics, and review cadences to monitor customer health, delivery progress, adoption, usage growth, risks, escalations, and forecasted expansion. • Drive cross-functional resolution of delivery blockers and escalations, while providing leadership feedback on field processes, product needs, programs, and organizational investments. What We Look For: • 7+ years of customer-facing experience in technical delivery, architecture, consulting, customer success, professional services, or post-sales leadership roles. • 5+ years of people-leadership experience, proven ability to