Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Emerging Enterprise

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · CA · Remote · Field Engineering - FE Direct Enterprise

This role manages a team of Solutions Architects focused on Financial Services clients, helping them define Data and AI strategies, transform data engineering, analytics, and ML/AI workloads. The manager will partner with sales to grow consumption and win new workloads by enhancing team effectiveness, communicating complex solutions, and building customer relationships.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects for a company and business unit in high-growth mode.
  2. Consistently meets or exceeds field targets by making sure the SA team knows how to qualify workloads - especially from a technical perspective, identify important use cases, build proof of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle.
  3. Ensure customer success with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses.
  4. Establish relationships across internal organizations (partners, services, sales, product, engineering, etc.) to ensure the success of the customers and team.

Skills

Required

  • Data warehousing
  • Big data
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Machine learning
  • Building and leading technical customer-facing teams
  • Technical account strategy
  • Architecture discussions
  • Solution advocacy
  • Managing workloads and consumption with sales counterparts
  • Driving executive alignment

Nice to have

  • Financial Services industry experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, cloud infrastructure, or machine learning)
  • 2+ years of experience building and leading technical customer-facing teams
  • Experience in Financial Services industry as an IC or leader is a big plus
  • A history of building a territory; growing strategic accounts; and exceeding targets
  • Led a team through best practices for technical account strategy, architecture discussions, and solution advocacy in a highly competitive and political customer environment.
  • A history of execution by managing workloads and consumption with sales counterparts.
  • Experience with driving executive alignment in accounts that guide strategic data infrastructure decisions and establish partnerships through adoptions and growth.