About the Position

Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Banking and Payments)

Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; New York City, New York

Mission

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a team, we have expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science and machine learning. As a member of our team, you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake. This is a customer-facing role, where you will work with customers, your teammates, the product team, and our post-sales teams, to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through the implementation, to accomplish value. In that process, you will build relationships with our customers, find and build champions, and become a trusted advisor. You will report to the Field Engineering Manager for the team.

Responsibilities

Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
Consult on big data architecture, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
Travel to customers in your region

Requirements

7+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R
Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
Experience supporting Financial Services clients is a plus
[Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

We Offer

Competitive salary range: $180,000-$247,500 USD
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits package

About the Company

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.

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

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Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Banking and Payments)

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