Senior Solutions Architect (Fintech)

Location: Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, or Washington, D.C.; exceptionally well-qualified candidates in other East Coast locations may also be considered.

Salary: $219,100–$301,300 USD annually, plus potential performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

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

What you will do

• Drive technical and consumption strategies for complex enterprise customer engagements.
• Own senior-level technical relationships and advise executives on data and AI strategy.
• Lead architecture engagements involving multi-workload platforms, enterprise migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale.
• Develop competitive strategies and position Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms.
• Orchestrate DSAs, SSAs, partners, product teams, and other cross-functional contributors.
• Coach junior solutions architects and contribute to customer-facing thought leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role.
• Expert coding proficiency in Python and SQL; Spark or PySpark experience is preferred for the role.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, streaming and real-time architectures, lakehouse design, data governance, and cloud-native platforms.
• Expert-level Databricks Platform knowledge or equivalent expertise with competing platforms and demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Recognized specialization in areas such as real-time architectures, ML/AI platforms, data governance, large-scale migrations, or industry-specific solutions.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders, driving platform adoption, leading competitive evaluations, and connecting architecture decisions to business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Databricks certifications.
• Experience at Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or a leading data and AI company.
• Published thought leadership, conference talks, or open-source contributions.
• Industry expertise with executive-level domain credibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to the employee's region.
• Potential annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen followed by a hiring manager screen.
• Design and architecture interview, live coding assessment, and Build, Demo, Pitch! presentation.
• Reference check.