Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Banking and Payments)

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In the posting’s own words

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.

What it asks for · 8

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

What the job covers

• 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

Degree language

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

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Words the posting leans on

• customers8×
• data8×
• architecture4×
• projects4×
• build3×
• cloud3×
• platform3×
• solutions3×
• spark3×
• analytics2×
• applications2×
• become2×
• customer-facing2×
• data engineering2×
• data science2×
• delta lake2×

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