Manager, Field Engineering

Job Summary

The Manager, Field Engineering will lead a team of Solutions Architects for Databricks' Field Engineering team in Latam, focusing on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, data science, data warehousing, and generative AI.

Responsibilities

• Hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode.
• Ensure customers are extremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses.
• Maintain a robust hiring pipeline at all times.
• Establish relationships across the business to make customers and team successful.
• Keep the team of Solutions Architects ahead of the technical curve.

Requirements

• Proven experience building and leading technical pre-or post-sales teams - hiring, on-boarding, and enabling pre-or post-sales professionals.
• 10+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e., data warehousing, big data, machine learning, or generative AI).
• Trusted advisor to technical executives that guide strategic data infrastructure decisions.
• Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, technical validations, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations.
• Establish and foster external partnerships with systems integrators (SIs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) that maximise and accelerate client success.
• Strong understanding of consumption-driven business models and the recipes for long-term growth and success.
• Experience hiring candidates that continually raise the bar, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting into larger roles.
• Create a positive morale for the team and help foster a working relationship between Field Engineering, Sales, and other important internal cross-functional teams.
• Experience working cross-functionally with other teams such as Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success.
• Must be technical enough to earn the trust of Engineering talent and leadership at Databricks.
• Demonstrated architectural influence. Able to influence and review complex architectures; guiding the team and customers towards ideal solutions that scale.

Benefits

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Company Culture

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