Job Description
Title: Specialist Solutions Architect – Data Governance (Financial Services)
Location: United States
This role can be remote.
As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) – Data Governance on the Financial Services team, you will guide customers in adopting Unity Catalog (a unified data governance solution) and Delta Sharing (a secure data sharing platform) on Databricks for a variety of different customers. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting the Solution Architects, which requires production deployment experience with data governance solutions and hands-on experience with cloud data lakes. You will help customers learn how to use our products to govern their files, tables, machine learning models, and dashboards in the cloud and to collaborate using our sharing technologies. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in the area of data governance.
The impact you will have:
- Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing, ranging from advisory and design to deployment to troubleshooting
- Understand the built-in roles and identity concepts in Databricks, and how to map those to fit organizational requirements
- Communicate and educate customers on organizational models of governance and how they map to usage of data governance products in Databricks
- Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including pilot advisory services, custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
- Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)
- Contribute to the Databricks Community
What we look for:
- 3+ years experience in a customer-facing technical role with expertise in data governance or data management
- Experience with ETL and database technologies or experience in big data platforms
- Enterprise Data Architecture experience. Maintain and extend production data systems to evolve with complex needs
- Programming experience in SQL and Python
- [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
- Ability to travel up to 30% when needed
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) Plan
- Equity awards
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Family Planning
- Gym reimbursement
- Annual personal development fund
- Work headphones reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Business travel accident insurance
- Mental wellness resources