Manager, Field Engineering France - Specialist Solutions Architects
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 key parts of the technical sales cycle. You will hire, train and grow the team, deploy experts to drive critical use cases, exceed regional consumption targets, and help resolve customer concerns on strategic accounts. You will also mentor team members, handle escalations and foster collaboration with Sales and other partners. You report to the Senior Manager, Field Engineering (Specialist).
Requirements
- Experience in senior roles in the data space with a technical product
- Experience leading technical customer-facing teams of more than 8 people, preferably in pre-sales
- Trusted advisor to technical executives on data infrastructure decisions
- Ability to challenge and define priorities
- Ability to lead a team on technical qualification, proofs of concept, architecture discussions and demos
- Experience hiring and ramping up candidates and promoting them
- Experience working with Sales, Product Management and Professional Services
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 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