Senior Solutions Architect – Financial Services (Strategic Banking)

About the role

Databricks is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead the adoption of its Data Intelligence Platform within the financial services sector, focusing on strategic banking use cases. This customer‑facing position works closely with sales, product, and post‑sales teams to design and implement data solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with sales to articulate how Databricks solves complex banking problems.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout proof‑of‑concepts and solution deployments.
• Design and present reference architectures, integration patterns, and best‑practice demos.
• Collaborate with global system integrators and consulting partners to extend platform capabilities.
• Travel within the assigned territory to engage with customers and build trusted advisor relationships.

Required profile

• 8+ years in a customer‑facing pre‑sales, consulting, or solutions engineering role, preferably with big‑data technologies.
• Experience designing distributed data systems for financial services or related industries.
• Undergraduate degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

Required skills

• Python, SQL, Scala, Java, or R programming.
• Public cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Big‑data technologies: Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka.
• Data‑lake and data‑management tools: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow.
• Data‑warehousing concepts: OLTP, OLAP, DSS.