# Solutions Architect - Financial Services

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $180k – $248k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Scala, Java, R, AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Lead pre-sales technical engagements for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform within Financial Services. Design distributed data architectures, run POCs, and guide customers through implementation of Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow solutions.

## Job Description

## 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, execute proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
- Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demonstrate applications for customers
- Become an expert in, and promote open source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
- Travel to meet with customers in your territory

## Requirements
- 7+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales role, or consulting role - preferably working with big-data technologies to solve data engineering and big-data analytical challenges
- Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
- Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, SQL, Scala, Java, or R
- Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- Experience with Data Warehousing technologies (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
- Undergraduate degree or higher in an engineering or mathematics discipline such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, etc.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working with global system integrators, consulting organizations, or financial services technology, or financial services data providers

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