Solutions Architect - Core FSI

About the role

As a Solutions Architect you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape, acting as a technical advisor to the sales team and championing customer needs with the product team. You will help customers achieve tangible data‑driven outcomes using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform and integrate it into their enterprise ecosystem. This is a hybrid role based in Mumbai.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can solve their business problems.
• Develop and execute account strategies, building a book of business that drives adoption of the Databricks platform.
• Consult on big‑data architectures, implement proof‑of‑concepts for strategic projects spanning data engineering, data science, machine learning and SQL analysis, and validate integrations with cloud services and third‑party tools.
• Collaborate with fellow Solutions Architects to support each other and our users.
• Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks open‑source projects such as Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow.

Required profile

• 8+ years in data engineering, data science, technical architecture or a similar pre‑sales/consulting role.
• 8+ years of experience with big‑data technologies (Apache Spark™, AI, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.).
• Strong consulting and customer‑facing experience across multiple industry markets.
• Hands‑on coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark™ or Scala.
• Experience building distributed data systems and solutions on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Willingness to travel to customers in the region.
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification.

Required skills

• Python
• R
• Java
• Scala
• Apache Spark
• Hadoop
• Cassandra
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)