[Remote] Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Asset and Wealth Management)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is the data and AI company, seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the growth of their Data Intelligence Platform within the Financial Services sector. The role involves working closely with customers to develop architectures and solutions, providing technical leadership, and promoting open source projects.

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

Skills

• 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.)
• Experience working with global system integrators, consulting organizations, or financial services technology, or financial services data providers is a positive differentiator

Benefits

• Eligibility for annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees

Company Overview

Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.databricks.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 174 in 2026, 385 in 2025, 319 in 2024, 227 in 2023, 222 in 2022, 166 in 2021, 64 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.