Sr. Manager, Field Engineering

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · New York, NY · Remote · Field Engineering - FE Direct Regulated

This role is for a Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture within Databricks' Field Engineering team, focusing on the Retail vertical. The manager will lead and promote a team of Solution Architects who focus on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, and data science. The role involves partnering with sales to increase revenue and ensure customer success, scaling and maintaining an outstanding Field Engineering team, and keeping the team ahead of the technical curve in Data + AI. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in the data space, architecting data-driven solutions for major accounts, and leading technical pre-sales teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will hire, train, grow, and manage a team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode.
  2. Make your customers in the Consumer Goods segment successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses.
  3. You will maintain a robust hiring pipeline at all times.
  4. Establish relationships across the business to make your customers and team successful.
  5. Partner with sales leadership to hit sales and consumption targets and ensure customer success

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of professional experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, or machine learning).
  • 3+ years of professional experience in the field, architecting and delivering data-driven solutions for major accounts within the Retail, Consumer Products, Travel & Hospitality vertical.
  • 3+ years of experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams - hiring, onboarding, and enabling pre and post)-sales professionals
  • A deep technical understanding of the impact that Data + AI can drive within the Retail industry.
  • Trusted advisor to technical executives who guide strategic data infrastructure decisions.
  • Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, proof of concepts, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations.
  • Experience hiring candidates, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting them into larger roles.
  • Build team morale and foster working relationships among Field Engineering, Sales, and other key internal partners.
  • Experience working with teams across Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success.
  • Demonstrated architectural influence. Able to influence and review complex architectures, guiding your team and customers toward ideal solutions - that scale.

Nice to have

  • Deep familiarity with the buy-side and supply-side ecosystem
  • Demonstrated expertise with data collaboration ecosystem (eg, customer data platforms, clean rooms, data marketplaces).

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be technical enough to earn the trust of Engineering talent and leadership at Databricks.