Solutions Engineer - Technology

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days from 06-Feb-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we are proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose. We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging. People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

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About the Opportunity

The Data Platform Engineering team is seeking an experienced Solutions Engineer, Azure & Databricks, to drive our enterprise data modernization strategy. You will architect and deliver scalable analytics solutions on Azure Databricks, enabling advanced analytics, data science, and AI across the enterprise. This role requires an architect-level mindset with hands-on capability to design end-to-end solutions while partnering with stakeholders to translate business problems into robust technical architectures.

What You Will Do

• Lead scalable analytics solution design on Azure and Databricks, creating patterns for ingestion, transformation, and serving using Delta Lake, while translating business requirements into actionable architectures and roadmaps.
• Design, implement, and manage secure Databricks platforms with workspace, cluster provisioning, resource optimization using Delta Lake and Photon, and establish reusable reference architectures.
• Automate provisioning via Terraform, GitLab CICD, and scripting Python, Bash, PowerShell, while building observability dashboards and operational readiness standards, monitoring, alerting, SLOs.
• Implement enterprise security policies, access controls, and compliance using Unity Catalog, design governance solutions for cataloging, lineage, access models, and data quality across domains.
• Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deploy analytical services, provide consultative guidance on architectural decisions, and resolve performance issues.
• Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities, document best practices, mentor engineers, support on-call rotation, and enhance solution patterns for scalability and developer experience.

What Experience You Will Need

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• 5 years in Systems Administration with minimum 3 years hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing Azure Databricks, ADLS, and related data solutions.
• Demonstrated experience architecting end-to-end scalable analytics solutions on Azure with Databricks, covering ingestion, processing, storage, governance, and consumption.
• Proven ability to create architecture artifacts, diagrams, reference architectures, decision records, and guide implementations aligned with enterprise standards.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Azure CLI, Databricks CLI, PowerShell, Python, REST API, and SQL for infrastructure automation and platform management.
• CICD and version control expertise with Git, GitHub Actions, and related tools for automated repeatable deployment workflows.
• Agile development experience working in cross-functional teams with iterative development and modern collaboration practices.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex designs and technical solutions clearly to stakeholders from technical teams to executives.

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ, and St. Louis, MO, home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week, effective June 1, 2026. Before June 1, 2026, candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ, and St. Louis, MO, home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.

Current INTERNAL home-based associates, while this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We are proud of our associates contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

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Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Edward Jones compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness, short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan and tax-advantaged accounts, health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firms Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.