Industry Lead Solutions Architect - Financial Services

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">FEQ227R255</p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Mission</strong></span></h2> <p>The Industry Lead Solutions Architect will serve as the connective tissue between GTM leadership, field teams, partners, and customers to deepen Databricks' Financial Services positioning by sub-industry. In this role, you will develop opinionated points of view (POVs), and be the primary technical owner of domain-specific messaging and tailored assets, that establish credibility with customer technical and business leadership. You will work with Databricks account and GTM teams to position Databricks as a strategic partner in solving customers' most critical business challenges across Financial Services sub-verticals.</p> <p>This is a high-visibility individual contributor role that will bridge the gap between product capabilities and industry-specific business outcomes, working closely with account teams, partners, and product engineering to drive growth and technical excellence across your assigned vertical. You will split your time across customer-facing engagements, internal collaboration on content strategy and thought leadership, and partner engagement on joint GTM motions. You will report directly to the FS Tech GM leadership within the Financial Services team at Databricks.&nbsp;</p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Impact You Will Have</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Define and execute the Databricks Industry strategy</strong> — work with Industry GTM leaders to lead creation and curation of high-quality, sub-industry-specific assets (POVs, demos, reference architectures, customer references, evaluation templates, implementation plans) that showcase Databrick’s value for high-priority use cases across Financial Services sub-verticals (e.g., Capital Markets, Insurance, Banking, Payments, Professional Services, Alternative Investments, FinTech, Data Providers)</li> <li><strong>Create standardized frameworks for asset quality and prioritization</strong> — define what "good" looks like for industry&nbsp; assets, and determine prioritization of asset creation including build-vs-partner decisions</li> <li><strong>Drive joint GTM strategy with partners</strong> — collaborate with Global System Integrators (GSIs), Regional System Integrators (RSIs), and data partners to co-build assets, align partner solutions to Databricks sub-vertical POVs, and identify the right partners for specific use cases and implementations&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Embed with strategic Financial Services customers</strong> — engage directly with customer technical and business leadership, and advise on how Databricks solves their most pressing domain-specific challenges. Aggrega