Field Engineering Manager, Specialist Solutions Architects - Nordics
Databricks is a data and AI platform that lets organizations build analytics, AI agents, and applications on a unified, governed lakehouse.
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About Databricks
Data engineers, analysts, and AI teams use Databricks to process large datasets, build reliable pipelines, and train models on a single governed platform. Users can run SQL analytics, serve ML predictions in real time, and deploy AI agents grounded in enterprise data. Its open lakehouse architecture provides consistent security and governance across analytical and operational workloads.
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About the Role
You will lead a team of Specialist Solutions Architects who support the technical sales cycle. You will hire, train and grow the team, work with cross-functional counterparts to deploy experts on key use cases, help customers succeed with Databricks, and handle escalations while mentoring your team. You will report to the Director, Field Engineering.
Requirements
- 5+ years leading Data & AI Engineering teams, technical pre-sales and/or post-sales teams
- 5+ years hands-on experience developing data solutions on highly technical platforms
- Skills in technical discovery, architecture design validation, POC/MVP management, and value selling
- Trusted advisor to technical executives
- Experience hiring, ramping and promoting candidates
- Experience working with Sales, Product Management, and Forward Deployed Engineering teams
- Flexibility for a higher level of travel
Responsibilities
- Hire, train, and grow a diverse team of Specialist Solutions Architects
- Exceed regional consumption targets by deploying technical experts on critical use cases
- Make customers successful with Databricks
- Establish relationships across the business
- Grow platform usage and prevent churn in strategic accounts by overseeing a regional growth quota
- Foster morale and collaboration between Field Engineering, Sales, and internal partners
- Help resolve customer questions and concerns on strategic accounts
- Handle escalations, mentor team members, and build career paths