Solutions Architect — Financial Services & Data

WinsAbove; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 247,500; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is hiring Solutions Architects in San Francisco to lead customer engagements, design architectures, and help customers realize value from the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.

You will collaborate with sales, post-sales, and product teams to develop use cases, run proofs of concept, and travel to customer sites as needed. The role emphasizes cloud data engineering, data analytics, ML workflows, and open-source Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role.
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems.
• Comfortable programming in Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R.
• Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Data engineering technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka).
• Data warehousing (SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS).
• Experience with Financial Services clients is a plus.
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (CS, Applied Mathematics, OR).

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 proofs of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and ML projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and 3rd party apps.
• Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers.
• Become an expert in Databricks open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow) and promote them across developer communities.
• Travel to customers in your region.

Skills

Customer-facing

Distributed data systems

Python/Scala/Java/SQL/R

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Data engineering (Spark/Hadoop/Kafka)

Data warehousing (SQL/OLTP/OLAP)

Financial services domain (nice-to-HAV

Quantitative degree (CS/Applied Math/-

Education

Bachelor’s or Master's in a quantitative discipline

Job description

Databricks is hiring Solutions Architects in San Francisco to lead customer engagements, design architectures, and help customers realize value from the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.

You will collaborate with sales, post-sales, and product teams to develop use cases, run proofs of concept, and travel to customer sites as needed. The role emphasizes cloud data engineering, data analytics, ML workflows, and open-source Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.