Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

As Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, you will lead and grow a team of customer-facing engineers focused on solving complex data engineering and AI challenges for strategic customers.

You will help shape delivery strategy, develop senior technical talent, build trusted executive relationships, and ensure teams deliver measurable customer outcomes at high quality and scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a team of ~10 high-performing Forward Deployed Engineers
• Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to shape complex engagements that deliver meaningful business outcomes on Databricks
• Guide teams through end-to-end solution delivery, from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment, and enablement
• Build trusted relationships with technical and executive stakeholders
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for the team
• Coach engineers on solution design, stakeholder management, delivery quality, and long-term career development
• Partner closely with Sales, Field Engineering, Product, and Professional Services leadership to align on account strategy, staffing, and execution
• Improve repeatability and scale by developing reusable patterns, delivery best practices, technical assets, and team processes

Requirements:

• Experience leading, hiring, and developing high-performing technical teams in customer-facing environments
• Current, hands-on technical credibility in data engineering, big data systems, and production data platform delivery
• Strong background in data engineering, big data systems, and production data platform delivery
• Experience across modern data workloads such as ingestion, transformation, orchestration, warehousing, analytics/BI, or streaming in enterprise environments
• Strong hands-on fluency in Python and SQL
• Familiarity with distributed processing frameworks (Apache Spark) and JVM languages (Scala/Java) is a plus
• Passion for reinventing delivery through AI
• Ability to scope and guide complex technical engagements, manage escalations, and ensure successful delivery across multiple stakeholders
• Strong executive communication skills
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and leading teams through fast-moving, high-visibility customer work
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Fluent Japanese is required, and business-level English is required