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Solutions Architect – Financial Services (Banking and Payments)
Solution / Enterprise Architect
• Architect
• On-site
• Full-time
•
Chicago, USA
Databricks is hiring a customer-facing Solutions Architect to drive adoption of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform among Financial Services (banking and payments) clients. The role spans cloud platforms, data engineering, analytics, and machine learning, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake.
Responsibilities
- ▹Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can solve their business problems
- ▹Provide technical leadership for customers evaluating and adopting Databricks
- ▹Consult on big data architecture and build proof of concepts for strategic customer, data science, and machine learning projects
- ▹Validate integrations with cloud services and other third-party applications
- ▹Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
- ▹Become an expert in Databricks-inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas) and promote them at meetups, conferences, and webinars
- ▹Travel to customers in the assigned 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
- ▹Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- ▹Familiarity with data engineering technologies (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- ▹Familiarity with data warehousing (e.g. SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
Nice to have
- ▹Experience supporting Financial Services clients
- ▹Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
Soft skills
Building trusted-advisor relationships with customersStrong communication and presentation skills at conferences and meetupsCollaboration with sales, product, and post-sales teams
What we offer
- ▹Eligibility for an annual performance bonus
- ▹Eligibility for equity
About the company
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. It is headquartered in San Francisco with offices around the globe, founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.
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