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Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect partnering with sales to help Financial Services customers evaluate and adopt Databricks for big data, analytics, and ML use cases. Requires 7+ years pre-sales technical architecture experience, distributed systems design, and proficiency with Spark, cloud platforms, and at least one programming language.

$180k – $248k/yr
On-site7+ YOESolutions Architecture

About the job

Impact You Will Have

  • 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 references 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

Nice-to-Haves

  • Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

Skills

SparkDelta LakeMLflowPythonScalaJavaSQLRAWSAzureGCPKafkaHadoop