Solutions Architect (pre-sales) - Financial Services

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Tokyo, Japan · Field Engineering - Other

Pre-sales Solutions Architect for Financial Services at Databricks, focusing on guiding technical evaluations, advising sales teams, and integrating the Databricks Lakehouse Platform into enterprise ecosystems. The role involves hands-on work with Big Data, Analytics, AI, Data Engineering, and Data Science problems, supporting customer adoption and authoring reference architectures.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
  2. Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
  3. Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
  4. Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
  5. Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups

Skills

Required

  • Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients
  • Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
  • Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
  • Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
  • Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English

Nice to have

  • Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous
  • Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
  • Experience working with Enterprise Accounts

What the JD emphasized

  • core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous