Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Lakebase

Databricks

FEQ427R257 As a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering, you will lead a diverse team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects covering the Asean region. You’ll play a key leadership role at the intersection of technology and business—guiding your team to design impactful solutions and drive growth through collaboration and innovation. You’ll empower your team to communicate complex ideas with clarity, support strategic enterprise customer engagements, and build lasting partnerships with clients and internal stakeholders. The impact you will have: * Lead, mentor, and support a high-performing, inclusive pre-sales team * Foster an environment of belonging, continuous learning, and psychological safety that reflects Databricks’ values of customer focus, teamwork, and diversity. * Work closely with Sales and other teams to identify opportunities and deliver data-driven, value-focused solutions. * Establish best practices that improve team efficiency, collaboration, and business impact. * Build trusted relationships with customers and partners, acting as a strategic advisor in their digital transformation journey. * Partner with Marketing, Sales, Services, and other cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless customer experience. * Represent Databricks as part of the regional leadership team, contributing to our local presence and inclusive culture. What we’re looking for: You do not need to fulfil every single requirement to be a strong candidate. If you are excited about this role and have related experience, we encourage you to apply. * Proven experience leading or managing technical teams in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS environments—or equivalent experience gained through hands-on engineering or consulting work. * A track record of coaching and developing diverse, high-performing teams. * Strong collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively with Sales, Marketing, and other cross-functional leaders. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills * Technical background in Data Engineering, Databases, or Data Science (consulting or customer-facing experience preferred). * Enthusiasm for data, AI, and cloud technologies, and the ability to connect these to real business outcomes. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

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FEQ425R219 The Sr. Manager, Field Engineering (Specialist) will lead a team of Partner Solution Architects. As you help mature our consulting & SI partner development function, you will provide technical guidance for practices at our consulting partners that span pre-sales teams and their data analytics delivery organizations. Your experience and influence, will help accelerate Customer Success and Databricks DBU consumption through a global partner ecosystem. You will guide and enhance your team's effectiveness; be an expert at communicating complex, outcome-based results that drive consumptions and help our joint customers achieve their desired outcome.  The impact you will have: * You will grow a team of Partner Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode. * 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. * 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) * Establish relationships across the business to make your partners and our customers successful. * Build a collaborative culture within a hyper-growth team to embody and ensure Databricks' company values * Drive Customer Success and DBU consumption through consulting partners * Display a deep understanding of a consulting services business needs, revenue potential, escalation management and project-portfolio management as it relates to enterprise data transformation initiatives What we look for: * 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, or MSc desirable * Technical background either in Data Engineering / Database technologies or Data Science About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

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FEQ427R338 At Databricks, our core principles are at the heart of everything we do; creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer-centric mindset guides us to create a unified platform that makes data science and analytics accessible to everyone. We aim to inspire our customers to make informed decisions that push their business forward. We provide a user-friendly and intuitive platform that makes it easy to turn insights into action and fosters a culture of creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement. You will be an essential part of this mission, using your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges. You'll work with a collaborative, customer-focused team that values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customized solutions to help our customers achieve their goals and guide their businesses forward. Join us in our quest to change how people work with data and make a better world! The impact you will have:  * Develop customer engagement strategies in partnership with Account Executive(s) in your designated territory. * Coach junior Solutions Architects and teams on use case prioritization and building technical champions. * You will influence stakeholders at all levels through complex engagements with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications, ensuring they are excited by the Databricks vision and solution strategy. * Be a 'champion’ for both customers and colleagues, operating as an expert solution architect and trusted advisor for significant data analytics architecture, design, and adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. * Contribute to Databricks' technical community engagement by developing customer-facing collateral and leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups. * Opportunity to continue your development in one of four tracks - technical specialization, industry vertical thought leadership, strategic customer vision, and people management. What we look for: * Know how to engage in complex customer interactions and sales lifecycle in a technical pre-sales capacity. * Ability to influence decision-makers and C-level executives by developing relationships and orchestrating teams to achieve long-term customer success. * Prior experience with coding in a core programming language (i.e., Python, Java, Scala) and willingness to learn a base level of Spark. * Hands-on expertise with complex proofs-of-concept and public cloud platform(s). * Know how to provide technical solutions for specialized customer needs and navigate a competitive landscape. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.