Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Banking and Payments)

The role

Solutions Architects lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You will work with customers to identify use cases, develop architectures, and guide implementations. You will also partner with sales teams and provide technical leadership for customer evaluation and adoption.

What you will do

• 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
• Validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
• Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
• Promote Databricks inspired open-source projects across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars

Required qualifications

• 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 )

Nice to have

• Experience supporting Financial Services clients
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.