Hybrid Delivery Solutions Architect – Financial Services, Banking & Payments

at Databricks

• Job title: Delivery Solutions Architect – Financial Services, Banking & Payments
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $180,000 - $247,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Python, Scala, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Delivery Solutions Architect for financial services helping clients maximize usage of the Databricks platform. Collaborating with sales and engineering teams to drive customer success and product adoption.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritised customers
• Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
• Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume Databricks
• Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to production/go live status of agreed upon use cases within an account, oftentimes services multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations
• Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services and Support resources, along with escalating to expert level technical experts to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise
• Create, own and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews and upgrade needs
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the below work streams:
• Main use cases moving from ‘win’ to production
• Enablement / user growth plan
• Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Databricks’ Lakehouse vision)
• Organic needs for current investment (e.g. cloud cost control, tuning & optimization)
• Executive and operational governance
• Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important risks, product adoption and use case progression - to your Technical GM

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience where you have been accountable for technical project / program delivery within the domain of Data and AI
• Programming experience in Python, SQL or Scala
• Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, customer success, or consulting role
• Understanding of solution architecture related distributed data systems
• Understanding of how to attribute business value and outcomes to specific project deliverables
• Technical program, or project management including account, stakeholder and resource management accountability
• Experience resolving complex and important escalation with senior customer executives
• Experience conducting open-ended discovery workshops, creating strategic roadmaps, conducting business analysis and managing delivery of complex programmes/projects
• Track record of overachievement against quota, Goals or similar objective targets
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Can travel up to 30% when needed

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities
• Bonuses
• Stock options