Sr. Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Hunter)
DatabricksAtlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; New York; Washington, D.C.Posted 24 February 2026
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<p><strong>Mission</strong></p>
<p>Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. As a team, we have expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science and machine learning. As a member of our team, you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake. This is a customer-facing role, where you will work with customers, your teammates, the product team, and our post-sales teams, to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through the implementation, to accomplish value. In that process, you will build relationships with our customers, find and build champions, and become a trusted advisor. You will report to the Field Engineering Manager for the team.</p>
<p><strong>The impact you will have:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems</li>
<li>Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Build and present references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Travel to customers in your region</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What we look for:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role</li>
<li>Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems</li>
<li>Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, Scala, Java, SQL, or R</li>
<li>Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP</li>
<li>Data Engineering technologies (<em>Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka</em>)</li>
<li>Data Warehousing (<em>Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS</em>)</li>
<li>Experience supporting Financial Services clients is a plus</li>
<li>[Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)</li>
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<p><strong>Pay Range Transparency</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px;">Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page <a href="https://www.databricks.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/us-pay-zone-mapping.pdf">here</a>.<br></span></p>
<p> </p></div><div class="title">Local Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$219,100</span><span class="divider"></span><span>$301,300 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>About Databricks</strong></p>
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