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Specialist Solutions Architect - AI/ML (Healthcare & Life Sciences)

Databricks is hiring a Specialist Solutions Architect - AI/ML (Healthcare & Life Sciences). It pays $180k-$248k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Databricks.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this solutions architect role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • Pay on this posting starts 7% higher than the typical solutions architect posting on Level.
  • The posting mentions MLflow, RAG and AI agents among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a senior role.
  • Databricks has 912 other open roles on Level.

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As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) on the Healthcare & Life Sciences team, you will help Payers and Providers put generative AI to work at the center of their business. For Payers, that means prior authorization, claims, payment integrity, risk adjustment and the member experience. For Providers, it means clinical documentation, care management, the revenue cycle and the patient experience. Both run on complex, highly regulated data such as EHR records, claims and clinical notes. You will help them turn that data into AI on Databricks that is accurate, governed and ready for production.

In this customer-facing role, you will work with and support Solution Architects, helping customers design and implement essential workloads and shape their roadmap for expanding use of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a go-to expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will keep building your skills through mentorship, learning and internal training. You will also deepen a specialty in generative AI, AI agents, Healthcare or another area.

The impact you will have

  • Guide strategic Payer and Provider customers from AI prototype to production, architecting generative AI applications and agents with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuned or open foundation models, and the data platforms behind them
  • Build agents for Payer and Provider workflows such as medical coding, utilization review and member and patient service, including multi-agent systems, tool calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations
  • Apply generative AI to clinical notes, charts, call transcripts and documents for summarization, extraction and chart review
  • Ground AI in governed data through context engineering, semantic layers and natural-language analytics with Genie, so agents answer from trusted business definitions
  • Set up evaluation, tracing and monitoring for AI quality, cost and latency, including LLM judges, human feedback and guardrails, using MLflow
  • Build the data foundations behind AI, including batch and streaming pipelines, data warehouses and migrations from legacy platforms such as Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Informatica and SAS
  • Bring machine learning in where it fits, such as risk, fraud and forecasting models that work alongside generative AI and agents
  • Help customers work with healthcare data such as EHR, FHIR, HL7 and claims, and meet HIPAA and PHI requirements through governance with Unity Catalog
  • Use AI tools, including coding assistants and agents, to move quickly from a customer problem to a working prototype and reusable solution accelerators
  • Support Solution Architects on the advanced parts of the technical sale, including custom proof-of-concept content, workload sizing estimates and custom architectures
  • Grow adoption of Databricks with customers and the broader community through tutorials, training, hackathons, blogs and Healthcare conference presentations

What we look for

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in a technical role, with recent hands-on work building generative AI applications or agents
  • Expertise in generative AI and agents, including LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks, tool calling and MCP, prompt and context engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation and guardrails
  • Experience taking AI applications or agents to production to solve business problems, including tracing, evaluation, monitoring, serving and cost control, with tools like MLflow
  • A strong foundation in data engineering, data warehousing or machine learning, such as pipelines and streaming, data modeling and SQL performance, warehouse migrations, model development and MLOps
  • Experience maintaining and extending production data systems as needs grow more complex
  • Comfort using AI coding assistants and agents in day-to-day development and prototyping
  • Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala or Java
  • 2 years of hands-on professional experience with big data technologies (such as Spark, Hadoop and Kafka) and architectures
  • 2 years of customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering, or equivalent work experience
  • Ability to meet technical training and role-specific expectations within 6 months of hire
  • Ability to travel up to 30% when needed

Preferred qualifications:

  • Education in a healthcare-related field (for example health informatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, public health or health economics), or equivalent experience
  • Experience with Payers or Providers, such as claims, care management, risk adjustment, quality measures, clinical operations, EHR data or revenue cycle management

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 1 Pay Range$180,000—$247,500 USDZone 2 Pay Range$180,000—$247,500 USDZone 3 Pay Range$180,000—$247,500 USDZone 4 Pay Range$180,000—$247,500 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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 click here.

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

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

How we rate this

Specialist Solutions Architect - AI/ML (Healthcare & Life Sciences) at Databricks rates 72 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

This job starts at
$180k
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$169k

This posting starts 7% above the typical solutions architect job. See solutions architect jobs

Questions you could be asked

  1. How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
  2. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
  3. Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
  4. How do you monitor a model once it's live, and how do you know it needs retraining?
  5. Walk me through how you've used MLflow in your day-to-day work.

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, AI agents, Fine-tuning, ML Ops, and MLflow. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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