Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Warehousing (Financial Services)

Location: United States; remote work available

Salary: $180,000–$247,500 USD annually, plus potential bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data + AI Platform for building and scaling data and AI applications, analytics, and agents.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end technical strategy for customer accounts from discovery through production deployment and consumption growth.
• Lead architecture discussions and design scalable, production-grade data engineering and real-time analytics solutions.
• Advise customer architects, engineering leads, and directors on technical strategy and trade-offs.
• Demonstrate platform differentiation through custom-built solutions and drive adoption in competitive scenarios.
• Develop a technical specialization and coordinate DSAs, SAs, and partners for complex customer solutions.
• Provide structured customer feedback to influence product direction.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role.
• Deep experience with Apache Spark, batch ingestion, Kafka or similar message queues, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex workloads.
• Strong Python and SQL coding skills, including live coding, debugging, and solution building.
• Expertise in distributed data systems, streaming architectures, lakehouse patterns, data warehousing migrations, governance, and MPP debugging.
• Experience with production deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure, security, and governance.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience; willingness to travel up to 30%.

Nice to have

• Databricks certifications in data engineering, machine learning, or platform technologies.
• Experience with Snowflake, AWS native services, or Azure Synapse.
• Experience in a data/AI company or cloud provider.
• Financial Services or other industry domain expertise.
• Experience with data observability, security telemetry, anomaly detection, or SIEM tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and region-specific employee perks.
• Potential annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.
• Commitment to an inclusive culture and equal employment opportunity.
• Remote work option for this position.