Lead Solutions Architect, Financial Services
- You are highly collaborative and build strong team relationships, which supports mentoring and partner interactions.
- Your customer-focused attitude aligns with the role's emphasis on customer-centricity and client success.
- You ensure that stakeholders feel heard, aiding influence and long-term relationships.
- Deep technical architecture and independent strategy work may not engage you, as you prefer social interaction.
- Handling high-pressure, technical evaluations could be stressful without clear social support.
Req ID: FEQ427R117
Location: Tokyo, Japan
At Databricks, our core values are at the heart of everything we do; a culture of proactiveness and customer‑centricity guides us to build a unified platform that makes data and AI accessible to everyone. In Japan Financial Services, we help leading banks, insurers, securities firms, payment providers, and asset managers turn data into a strategic asset – improving customer experience, strengthening risk management, and driving profitable growth.
You will be the senior technical leader for a set of strategic FSI accounts in Japan, using your executive‑level technical credibility and Financial Services expertise to shape and execute their data and AI strategy.
Reporting to: Manager, Field Engineering – Financial Services, Japan
The impact you will have
- Own technical strategy for key FSI customers in Japan, defining the target architecture and roadmap for their Databricks lakehouse and AI platform.
- Lead high‑impact evaluations and designs for priority FSI use cases (e.g., fraud/AML, risk, regulatory reporting, SIEM, Hyper Personalization, trading and investment analytics).
- Connect architecture to outcomes, showing how Databricks reduces risk, improves efficiency, and unlocks new revenue, then using those wins to drive broader expansion.
- Shape the ecosystem, working closely with cloud providers, global/local SIs, and fintech partners to deliver end‑to‑end solutions on Databricks.
- Raise the bar regionally, mentoring other Solutions Architects and contributing reusable reference architectures, patterns, and customer stories for Japan FSI.
What we look for
- 10+ years in data platforms, analytics, or cloud architecture, including 6+ years working with large Financial Services institutions in Japan.
- Proven ability to influence C‑level and director‑level stakeholders (CIO, CDO, CRO, heads of data/AI) and lead high‑stakes technical discussions in Japanese.
- Deep hands‑on background in at least one area: Data Engineering, Data Warehousing/Analytics, AI/ML, or Cloud Architecture, with a strong architecture / platform focus.
- Experience designing data and analytics solutions for FSI use cases (e.g., risk, fraud/AML, regulatory reporting, SIEM, customer analytics, or trading/investment).
- Strong understanding of Japan FSI landscape, including typical organization structures, how decisions are made, and the role of SIs and cloud providers.
- Outstanding communication and storytelling skills, able to explain complex architectures to both technical teams and senior business stakeholders.
- Language: Native‑level Japanese and business‑level English.
If you’re excited about helping Japan’s Financial Services use data and AI to deliver better outcomes – while setting the technical bar for our GTM in Japan – we’d love to hear from you.
About 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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