Databricks is looking for a Resident Solutions Architect - Financial Services to join our Professional Services team. In this senior role, you will work directly with clients on short to medium term engagements to solve their big data challenges, helping them derive maximum value from the Databricks platform through data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects.

What You'll Do

Work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases.
Work with engagement managers to scope a variety of professional services work with input from the customer.
Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications.
Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap hands-on projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs.
Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.

What We're Looking For

9+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics.
Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.
Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark and knowledge of Apache Spark runtime internals.
Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
Working knowledge of MLOps.
Capable of design and deployment of highly performant end-to-end data architectures.
Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
Documentation and white-boarding skills.
Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
Experience in building scalable streaming and batch solutions using cloud-native components.
Travel to customers up to 20% of the time.

Nice to Have

Databricks Certification.

Technical Stack

Python, Scala
AWS, Azure, GCP
Apache Spark
CI/CD
MLOps

Team & Environment

You will join the Professional Services team, reporting to a regional Manager/Lead.

Benefits & Compensation

Compensation range: $180,656—$248,360 USD.

Work Mode

This is a remote position open to candidates in Massachusetts or within the Central and Eastern Time Zones.

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