Manager, Delivery Solutions Architects - Financial Services

Databricks
Georgia; Illinois; New York; Washington; D.C., US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level technical leaders who have managed customer-facing teams in financial services and can travel up to 30%.

Best fit for

  • Experienced technical managers with financial services domain expertise.
    — “Conversant with the business problems and Data and AI use cases in financial services
  • Leaders who prioritize team growth over mere management.
    — “A bias for growing people, not just managing them
  • Hands-on sponsors comfortable advising C-suite executives.
    — “You are a hands-on technical sponsor and trusted advisor to a select group of customers, including their C-suite

Things to consider

  • 30% travel requirement may impact work-life balance.
    — “Can travel up to 30% when needed
  • Performance measured against quota and objective targets.
    — “Track record of overachievement against quota, Goals or similar objective targets

How to stand out

  • Highlight specific financial services use cases you've delivered.
    — “Track record of putting data and AI workloads into production at scale
  • Demonstrate systems-building mindset in past leadership roles.
    — “A bias for building systems, not just running them
  • Quantify impact of your team's work on customer outcomes.
    — “Drive measurable customer outcomes: use-case throughput, time-to-production, consumption growth, and renewal rates
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Manager

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What success looks like

  • customer success
  • use-case throughput
  • time-to-production
Typical background
solution architecturetechnical account managementdelivery architecture

Skills & requirements

Required

Solution ArchitectureData And AiFinancial ServicesTeam ManagementTechnical Strategy

Preferred

Professional ServicesSystems Integration

Stack & domain

Technical StrategyCapacity PlanningInvestment ForecastingCustomer SuccessLeadershipCoachingTeam BuildingFinancial ServicesData And Ai

About the role

Original posting from Databricks

CSQ327R104

You will build and lead a team of Delivery Solution Architects (DSAs) responsible for the post-sales success of Databricks' largest Financial Services customers. This is one of the most consequential delivery leadership roles in the company. The customers in your portfolio anchor a strategic vertical for Databricks, and your team's work directly determines how quickly Data and AI transforms how they do business.

As a DSA Manager you set the technical strategy across your portfolio, decide where to invest your team's capacity, and partner with Sales, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, and our Systems Integrator ecosystem to move use cases from kickoff to production. You are a hands-on technical sponsor and trusted advisor to a select group of customers, including their C-suite. You build the systems, operating cadences, and playbooks that make your team and the broader DSA practice sharper over time.

The DSAs you lead are senior technical talent, drawn from principal-level solution architecture, top-tier consulting, or senior engineering backgrounds. Hiring, coaching, and growing this team is the heart of the job.

The impact you will have:

Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing DSA team. Own career growth, calibrated performance management, and individual development plans.

Own capacity planning and investment forecasting across the FINS portfolio. Defend investment decisions with data, alongside sales and field leadership.

Partner with Sales, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, and Systems Integrator partners to accelerate use case delivery and reduce customer risk.

Drive measurable customer outcomes: use-case throughput, time-to-production, consumption growth, and renewal rates. Forecast each across your portfolio.

Bring a programmatic approach to running the business. Build the systems, operating cadences, and playbooks that scale the DSA practice.

Shape and promote the value proposition of the DSA role with our internal partners and our customers.

What we look for:

5+ years of experience managing a customer-facing technical team (DSA, Solution Architect, Technical Account Manager, Customer Success Engineer, or equivalent).

Demonstrated leadership of a team of pre-sales or post-sales technical talent.

Track record of putting data and AI workloads into production at scale, e.g., as a delivery architect, project manager, DevOps engineer, or service or product owner.

Conversant with the business problems and Data and AI use cases in financial services (banking, capital markets, insurance, or asset management preferred).

A bias for building systems, not just running them. A bias for growing people, not just managing them.

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

 

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

 

Local Pay Range$197,100—$270,975 USDAbout Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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