Field Engineering Manager, Specialist Solutions Architects - Nordics

The Specialist Solutions Architect Manager will lead a team of Specialist Solutions

Architects (SSA’s) responsible for key elements of the technical sales cycle. You will grow and develop a dynamic team with

expertise in areas including enterprise software, data engineering, and data science/machine learning, who will continue to deepen

their knowledge of Databricks as the platform expands. You will guide and get involved to enhance your team's effectiveness; be an

expert at communicating complex, business value-focused solutions; support complex sales cycles and customer architectures; and

build relationships with key stakeholders in large corporations.

The SSA Team is engaged in our most important and complex

customer engagements, providing deep technical expertise to both new and existing customers. Your team provides specialist

expertise to the Solution Architect (SA) and Sales teams, which are responsible for developing and overseeing the overall

technical account strategy.

The impact you will

have:​

• You will hire, train, and grow a diverse team of Specialist Solutions Architects for Databricks, a

company in hyper-growth mode

• Exceed your region's consumption targets - by working with your cross-functional

counterparts to determine where to deploy your team of technical experts to drive the most critical use cases forward

• Make your customers extremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses
• Establish

relationships across the business to make your customers and team successful

• Grow Databricks Platform usage and prevent

churn in strategic accounts by overseeing and retiring a regional growth quota

• Create positive morale for the team and

help foster a working relationship between Field Engineering, Sales, and other important internal partners

• Help resolve

customer questions and concerns on accounts and opportunities deemed strategic by Sales and Pre-sales field leadership

• Act in a supportive manager capacity, including handling escalations, mentoring team members, building a career path for the

assigned team members, etc.

• 5+ years of experience leading technical

pre-sales and/or post-sales teams, with a proven track record in the management of elite technical individual contributors. This

will ideally include experience leading technical overlay customer-facing teams, preferably in a pre-sales organisation, driving

technical engagements.

• 3+ years of experience in developing the data and AI space with highly technical platforms (e.g.,

distributed computing, cloud data warehousing, MLOps, or generative AI infrastructure).

• Elite command of technical

qualification methodologies, architecture design validation, structured proof-of-concept (POC/MVP) management, and value-selling

frameworks.

• Trusted advisor to technical executives who guide strategic data infrastructure decisions
• Team

player, but able to challenge and define priorities.

• Self-starter, challenger, strategic planner & analytical

thinker.

• Experience hiring qualified candidates, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting into larger

roles.

• Experience successfully partnering with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product Management, and Forward

Deployed Engineering.

Note: Preferred location to hire is in Stockholm (Sweden) given the current team

distribution. We can consider candidates based in the Nordics region (Sweden, Denmark & Finland) on the basis that they are

flexible for a higher level of travel required in the role.

Databricks is

the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian,

Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics

and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes

Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

​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.

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.

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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.​