Manager, Field Engineering - DoD/Intelligence Community

Reporting to the Technical General Manager for Public Sector, the Solutions Architect Manager will lead a team of pre-sales Solutions Architects focusing on complex, strategic accounts. You will expand and develop a dynamic team experienced in enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, and data science. Your experience partnering with the sales organization will help close revenue opportunities with the right approach whilst coaching new sales and pre-sales team members to work together. 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 build relationships with key stakeholders in large corporations.

The impact you will have:

• You will hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode.
• Crush your region's sales target - by making sure your SA team knows how to qualify accounts, especially from a technical perspective, identify important use-cases, build proof of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle; lead the technical win.
• Make your customers extremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses.
• Establish relationships across the business (partners, sales, GTM) to make your customers and team successful.

What we look for:

• 5+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, or machine learning).
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams, with a preference for a pre-sales organization - building a territory, up-selling strategic accounts, and exceeding annual quotas.
• Trusted advisor to technical executives that guide strategic data infrastructure decisions.
• Led a team through best practices for technical qualifications, proof of concepts, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations.
• Experience hiring qualified candidates, ramping them up to be successful and promoting them into larger roles.
• Create positive morale for the team and help foster a working relationship between Field Engineering, Sales, and other important internal partners
• Nice to have: Appropriate security clearances to meet with customers in secure environments
• Must be US Citizen and have ability to obtain security clearances

 

About Databricks

Databricks is the lakehouse company. More than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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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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