Lead Solutions Architect – MedTech (Strategic Account)

About the role

Databricks is looking for a Lead Solutions Architect for a strategic global MedTech customer in Amsterdam. You will be the technical leader and lead architect for a health technology company whose diagnostic, therapy, connected-care and consumer health products reach hundreds of millions of people annually. The account is a large, Azure-first Data Intelligence Platform customer running over a hundred use cases across business units and regions, delivered as a multi-year program in quarterly releases.

Key responsibilities

• Define the customer's enterprise Data + AI vision with CxO and VP stakeholders, acting as their trusted advisor on platform strategy, build-vs-buy, responsible AI and regulated-industry governance
• Show, don't tell: inspire CTOs and engineering leaders with working examples and build prototypes when needed
• Lead the account pod technically, setting direction for Solutions Architects, Specialists, Professional Services and partners and coaching them up
• Partner with the Account Executive on account strategy and consumption planning, and align pre-sales, delivery and partners so the customer sees one plan and one escalation path
• Lead discovery and solution design for strategic, high-risk deployments, driving them to production and measurable outcomes
• Build lasting C-level, VP and Director relationships across IT, data & AI, R&D, Quality & Regulatory, Service, Operations and business units
• Shape Databricks product and go-to-market strategy with field insight, and lead the account's largest modernisation programs
• Scale GenAI and agentic AI from pilot to production, build partner ecosystem relationships (GSIs, ISVs, hyperscalers) and create reusable IP for the health and life sciences community

Required profile

• Proven record as lead technical figure on a large global enterprise account, or as enterprise/chief architect at a similar organisation, owning the vision over multiple years
• Experience leading virtual teams without direct authority, setting direction and coaching senior architects
• Thrives with high autonomy in ambiguous, high-stakes, multi-region, multi-business-unit environments
• Excellent communicator from boardroom to engineering floor, with clear written thinking
• 10+ years in data engineering, analytics, ML or AI architecture, with significant customer-facing technical leadership (pre-sales, consulting or enterprise architecture)
• Experience designing large-scale data platforms and migrations, enterprise governance and security models, and production ML, MLOps, GenAI and agent systems
• Ability to win platform decisions against hyperscaler-native and competing platforms on architecture, cost and governance
• Experience in health technology, medical devices, life sciences or another regulated industry, with understanding of GDPR, HIPAA and the European Health Data Space, and familiarity with DICOM, HL7, FHIR and OMOP
• Nice to have: MedTech and medical AI regulation (EU MDR/IVDR, FDA SaMD, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, ISO 14971), GxP / 21 CFR Part 11 data and AI environments, SAP BW / S/4HANA integration, public thought leadership, Dutch (a plus); professional English required

Required skills

• Deep hands-on expertise in modern data and AI platforms; Apache Spark, Delta Lake and Databricks are a strong plus
• Python and SQL, able to prototype quickly, including with AI-assisted development