Sr. Manager, Partner Solutions Architect

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Singapore · Field Engineering - Indirect

This role is for a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering (Specialist) at Databricks, focusing on leading a team of Partner Solution Architects. The primary responsibility is to mature the consulting and SI partner development function by providing technical guidance for partner pre-sales and data analytics delivery organizations. The goal is to accelerate customer success and Databricks DBU consumption through a global partner ecosystem by enabling partners to build technical points of view, identify offers, and guide adoption of the Databricks platform. The role requires experience in hiring and managing technical teams, senior pre-sales or post-sales experience in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS, and a technical background in Data Engineering or Data Science.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will grow a team of Partner Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode.
  2. Crush your OKRs! - by making sure our partners know how to build a comprehensive technical point of view to establish the lakehouse architecture across a wide array of their customers, identify valuable business-impacting offers and guide the adoption of the Databricks platform into partner solutions. This will establish partners as trusted advisors by having strong capability and Databricks practices.
  3. Lead a team to make partners grow their practice by driving priorities alongside partner sales and partner alliances along with the other databricks technical functions (Specialist, Professional Services, and Product)
  4. Establish relationships across the business to make your partners and our customers successful.
  5. Build a collaborative culture within a hyper-growth team to embody and ensure Databricks' company values

Skills

Required

  • Experience hiring and managing field or technical teams from scratch at hyper-growth speed
  • 8+ years experience in senior pre-sales or post-sales roles, where you have assisted in the development of a successful team of professionals in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS
  • Player/Coach capability, comfortable both leading or contributing to work on projects, with partners on our joint customers
  • Knowledgeable in and passionate about data-driven decisions, AI, and Cloud software models
  • Great at instituting processes for technical field members to promote efficiency
  • Bachelor's Degree in STEM subject
  • Technical background either in Data Engineering / Database technologies or Data Science

Nice to have

  • MSc desirable