Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Governance (Financial Services)

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

About Databricks

Databricks is the lakehouse company. More than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

 

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