Resident Solutions Architect Track
The customer-facing half of the Databricks field interview — what the RSA job actually is, how engagements run, and the architecture judgment the panel is probing for. Six modules in reading order.
The RSA Role, Decoded
What Resident Solutions Architects do inside Databricks Professional Services, the success profile, and the interview loop stage by stage.
MODULE 02Migration Playbooks
Hadoop, legacy enterprise data warehouses, and Snowflake coexistence — assessment, phasing, risk management, and the conversations that go with each.
MODULE 03Reference Architectures
Batch, streaming, ML, and GenAI lakehouse blueprints; Azure specifics; security, networking, and DR considerations customers always ask about.
MODULE 04GenAI on Databricks
Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Genie, agent frameworks, evaluation, and governance — anchored to three production agents already shipped.
MODULE 05Consulting Craft
Discovery, scoping, whiteboarding, stakeholder management, objection handling, and customer enablement — the skills that separate architects from engineers.
MODULE 06Worked Case Studies
Full customer scenarios — finance R2R lakehouse, streaming, EDW migration, GenAI rollout — worked end-to-end the way an RSA panel expects.