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Solutions architect roles in Minnesota are concentrated in the Twin Cities metro, where major employers like Best Buy, Target, UnitedHealth Group, and a growing cluster of fintech and health tech firms regularly hire for these positions. Companies in Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a track record of sponsoring skilled technology workers for roles requiring enterprise architecture and cloud expertise.
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Databricks Solutions Architect Senior Manager
LOCATION
MINNEAPOLIS
ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S)
JOB DESCRIPTION
You Belong Here
The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.
At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.
Where We Need You
Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Senior Manager to join our growing Enterprise Data & Analytics team.
What You Can Expect
As a Senior Manager, you’ll partner with our clients to identify and manage risk. You'll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' needs through using the latest tools and methods. You’ll develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery. You’ll foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide performance development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans.
What Will Help You Be Successful
- You enjoy designing and delivering modern data engineering solutions with Databricks.
- You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to data architecture and engineering, including the latest trends and developments with Databricks.
- You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing exceptional experiences.
- You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
- You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.
- You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.
- You have interest in contributing to the preparation of client proposals and strategies to win new business.
- You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.
You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across industries.
Do Your Talents Include the Following?
You demonstrate Leadership & Management capabilities through the following:
- You care about the success and well-being of both your clients and colleagues.
- You collaborate by creating a team environment where everyone feels that they are valued, welcomed, and can contribute their ideas.
- You deliver and earn the trust of your clients and colleagues by building best-in-class solutions and managing deliverables.
You have experience with many and familiarity with most of the following Concepts and Methodologies:
- Ability to articulate the value of Databricks capabilities to customers and colleagues, and proven track record of data storytelling to guide decision-making.
- Participation in the process of formulating, communicating, and executing data strategies that align with organizational goals and objectives leveraging Databricks and relevant technologies.
- Experience in assessing existing data solutions, whether on-premises or in the cloud, to inform improvement initiatives.
- Advanced skills in architecting future state data solutions using Well-Architected Frameworks aligned to Databricks.
- Experience in planning and migrating data solutions from various sources, including on-premises, other cloud platforms, or legacy systems, to Databricks.
- Highly proficient with implementing ETL processes and databases using either Databricks or complimentary solutions.
- Significant experience optimizing existing data implementations, including pipelines, queries, and data models, to enhance performance and delivery of value to the business.
- Knowledge of administering and maintaining data solutions to ensure stability, security, scalability, and affordability.
- Highly proficient in data engineering, including data movement, data integration, transformation, and cleansing.
- Ability to lead designing, managing, and optimizing data warehousing / modern data platform.
- Highly skilled in data modeling, including entity-relationship diagrams, dimensional modeling, and semantic modeling.
- Ability to perform data analytics, including exploratory data analysis and leveraging data for actionable insights.
- Experience with implementing data governance frameworks and policies, including an understanding of managing data assets using Unity Catalog.
- Understanding of data security practices, including encryption and access control.
- Knowledge of networking as it applies to configuring Databricks on-prem or within cloud solutions.
- Understanding of DevOps or DataOps concepts and experience with the deployment of Databricks solutions.
- Expert in SQL and Spark (PySpark & Spark SQL) and bonus for familiarity with any of the programming languages such as C#, Java, Scala, R, DAX, MDX, or M.
Bonus: Experience with Data Science and/or Machine Learning.
Competency with at least 3 and exposure to most of these technologies:
- Databricks Lakehouse architecture and medallion design patterns
- Unity Catalog governance, lineage, access controls, and data sharing
- Apache Spark development using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake
- Data engineering with Auto Loader, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, and workflow orchestration
- Databricks Asset Bundles, Git integration, CI/CD, and environment promotion
- Databricks SQL, serverless compute, query optimization, and performance tuning
Bonus: Mosaic AI, MLflow, model serving, and generative AI capabilities.
- Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data.
- Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
- Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
- Ability to translate and communicate issues, risk, or challenges to client personnel, including executives.
Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.
Your Educational and Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, CIS, Analytics)
- 7+ years working in professional services or related industry.
- Professional Certification
- Required: Professional Databricks certification (Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional)
- Preferred: Databricks Champion.
Our Hybrid Workplace
Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.
Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.
$140,000.00 - $224,000.00
Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.
14%
The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.
$159,600.00 - $255,360.00
Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.
Learn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti at https://www.protiviti.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2026_u.s._benefit_highlights.pdf.
Any benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.S. Your Open Enrollment materials, insurance contracts, plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. Protiviti reserves the right to terminate or amend your benefit plans in any way and at any time.
Protiviti is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran
As part of Protiviti’s employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Protiviti is committed to being an equal employment employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to HRSolutions@roberthalf.com or call 1.855.744.6947 for assistance.
In your email please include the following:
- The specific accommodation requested to complete the employment application.
- The location(s) (city, state) to which you would like to apply.
For positions located in San Francisco, CA: Protiviti will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For positions located in Los Angeles County, CA: Protiviti will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Protiviti is not registered to hire or employ personnel in the following states – West Virginia, Alaska.
Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services.
JOB LOCATION
MN PRO MINNEAPOLIS
JOB REQUISITION
Databricks Solutions Architect Senior Manager
LOCATION
MINNEAPOLIS
ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S)
JOB DESCRIPTION
You Belong Here
The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.
At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.
Where We Need You
Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Senior Manager to join our growing Enterprise Data & Analytics team.
What You Can Expect
As a Senior Manager, you’ll partner with our clients to identify and manage risk. You'll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' needs through using the latest tools and methods. You’ll develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery. You’ll foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide performance development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans.
What Will Help You Be Successful
- You enjoy designing and delivering modern data engineering solutions with Databricks.
- You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to data architecture and engineering, including the latest trends and developments with Databricks.
- You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing exceptional experiences.
- You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
- You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.
- You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.
- You have interest in contributing to the preparation of client proposals and strategies to win new business.
- You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.
You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across industries.
Do Your Talents Include the Following?
You demonstrate Leadership & Management capabilities through the following:
- You care about the success and well-being of both your clients and colleagues.
- You collaborate by creating a team environment where everyone feels that they are valued, welcomed, and can contribute their ideas.
- You deliver and earn the trust of your clients and colleagues by building best-in-class solutions and managing deliverables.
You have experience with many and familiarity with most of the following Concepts and Methodologies:
- Ability to articulate the value of Databricks capabilities to customers and colleagues, and proven track record of data storytelling to guide decision-making.
- Participation in the process of formulating, communicating, and executing data strategies that align with organizational goals and objectives leveraging Databricks and relevant technologies.
- Experience in assessing existing data solutions, whether on-premises or in the cloud, to inform improvement initiatives.
- Advanced skills in architecting future state data solutions using Well-Architected Frameworks aligned to Databricks.
- Experience in planning and migrating data solutions from various sources, including on-premises, other cloud platforms, or legacy systems, to Databricks.
- Highly proficient with implementing ETL processes and databases using either Databricks or complimentary solutions.
- Significant experience optimizing existing data implementations, including pipelines, queries, and data models, to enhance performance and delivery of value to the business.
- Knowledge of administering and maintaining data solutions to ensure stability, security, scalability, and affordability.
- Highly proficient in data engineering, including data movement, data integration, transformation, and cleansing.
- Ability to lead designing, managing, and optimizing data warehousing / modern data platform.
- Highly skilled in data modeling, including entity-relationship diagrams, dimensional modeling, and semantic modeling.
- Ability to perform data analytics, including exploratory data analysis and leveraging data for actionable insights.
- Experience with implementing data governance frameworks and policies, including an understanding of managing data assets using Unity Catalog.
- Understanding of data security practices, including encryption and access control.
- Knowledge of networking as it applies to configuring Databricks on-prem or within cloud solutions.
- Understanding of DevOps or DataOps concepts and experience with the deployment of Databricks solutions.
- Expert in SQL and Spark (PySpark & Spark SQL) and bonus for familiarity with any of the programming languages such as C#, Java, Scala, R, DAX, MDX, or M.
Bonus: Experience with Data Science and/or Machine Learning.
Competency with at least 3 and exposure to most of these technologies:
- Databricks Lakehouse architecture and medallion design patterns
- Unity Catalog governance, lineage, access controls, and data sharing
- Apache Spark development using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake
- Data engineering with Auto Loader, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, and workflow orchestration
- Databricks Asset Bundles, Git integration, CI/CD, and environment promotion
- Databricks SQL, serverless compute, query optimization, and performance tuning
Bonus: Mosaic AI, MLflow, model serving, and generative AI capabilities.
- Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data.
- Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
- Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
- Ability to translate and communicate issues, risk, or challenges to client personnel, including executives.
Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.
Your Educational and Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, CIS, Analytics)
- 7+ years working in professional services or related industry.
- Professional Certification
- Required: Professional Databricks certification (Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional)
- Preferred: Databricks Champion.
Our Hybrid Workplace
Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.
Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.
$140,000.00 - $224,000.00
Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.
14%
The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.
$159,600.00 - $255,360.00
Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.
Learn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti at https://www.protiviti.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2026_u.s._benefit_highlights.pdf.
Any benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.S. Your Open Enrollment materials, insurance contracts, plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. Protiviti reserves the right to terminate or amend your benefit plans in any way and at any time.
Protiviti is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran
As part of Protiviti’s employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Protiviti is committed to being an equal employment employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to HRSolutions@roberthalf.com or call 1.855.744.6947 for assistance.
In your email please include the following:
- The specific accommodation requested to complete the employment application.
- The location(s) (city, state) to which you would like to apply.
For positions located in San Francisco, CA: Protiviti will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For positions located in Los Angeles County, CA: Protiviti will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Protiviti is not registered to hire or employ personnel in the following states – West Virginia, Alaska.
Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services.
JOB LOCATION
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Search Solutions Architect Jobs in MinnesotaSolutions Architect Jobs in Minnesota: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies in Minnesota sponsor visas for solutions architects?
Several large Minnesota-based employers have sponsored solutions architects through H-1B visa and other work visas, including UnitedHealth Group, Target, Best Buy, Optum, and Ameriprise Financial. Mid-sized technology consultancies and health IT firms in the Twin Cities metro also appear regularly in Department of Labor disclosure data as sponsors for solutions architect and related technical roles.
Which visa types are most common for solutions architect roles in Minnesota?
The H-1B is the most frequently used visa for solutions architects in Minnesota, as the role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. Candidates with Canadian or Mexican citizenship may qualify for the TN visa under the NAFTA/USMCA engineer category, which does not require lottery selection and can move faster.
How to find solutions architect visa sponsorship jobs in Minnesota?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship availability, so you can search solutions architect roles in Minnesota without manually screening postings that exclude international candidates. Because Minnesota's sponsoring employers are concentrated in a few industries, using Migrate Mate to narrow by location and role helps you focus on the Twin Cities companies most active in sponsoring technical hires.
Which cities in Minnesota have the most solutions architect sponsorship jobs?
Minneapolis and Saint Paul together account for the large majority of solutions architect sponsorship activity in Minnesota. Bloomington and Eden Prairie, both within the Twin Cities metro, also host significant employer campuses in healthcare technology and financial services. Rochester has a smaller but notable presence driven by Mayo Clinic and its affiliated technology vendors, particularly for health IT architecture roles.
Are there any Minnesota-specific considerations for solutions architect visa sponsorship?
Minnesota's sponsorship activity for solutions architects is heavily shaped by its two dominant industries: healthcare technology and financial services. Employers in these sectors, including health insurance giants and retail technology operations, tend to have established immigration programs and in-house legal teams. The University of Minnesota and regional engineering programs also create a pipeline of international candidates already embedded in the local hiring market, which some employers factor into their sponsorship processes.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored solutions architect jobs in Minnesota?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.