James
McNiff

James is a Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks, based in Brisbane, Australia, specialising in Financial Services and Public Sector. Drawing on his background as a Data and AI specialist at McKinsey, he partners with some of the region's most complex regulated enterprises - spanning banking, superannuation, and government health - helping them build production-grade data and AI platforms on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

With deep expertise across Data Engineering, Unity Catalog, MLOps, Agentic AI and Lakebase, James bridges ambitious data strategy with real-world production delivery. His accounts include major Australian financial institutions and public health systems, where compliance and governance are non-negotiable.