Databricks
Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Professional Services)
$180K–$248K
Illinois +5 · Remote · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Location
- Illinois
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Washington, D.C.
Remote - North Carolina - Experience
- 7+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role; preferably working with big-data technologies.
- Education
- Undergraduate degree or higher in an engineering or mathematics discipline such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Electrical Engineering.
About the job
Leads customer-facing technical engagements to design Databricks solutions, guide adoption and implementation, and deliver business outcomes for financial services customers.
What you'll do
- Partner with sales and customers to identify use cases, evaluate the platform, and guide adoption.
- Design big-data architectures, execute proofs of concept, and validate integrations with cloud services and third-party applications.
- Build and present reference architectures and demonstrations, promote open-source projects, and travel to meet customers.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems.
- Programming and debugging experience in at least one of Python, SQL, Scala, Java, or R.
- Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Undergraduate degree or higher in an engineering or mathematics discipline.
Nice to have
- Customer-facing pre-sales or consulting experience with big-data technologies.
- Experience with financial services organizations or providers, data engineering technologies, or data warehousing technologies.
Pay
$180,000 — $247,500 USD (salary range or on-target earnings; posting does not specify which applies to this role)
Tools
Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Python, SQL, Scala, Java
AI focus
Uses the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and related data science, machine learning, and AI capabilities to develop customer solutions.
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