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Sr. Manager, Field Engineering Qatar&Africa

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-02 London, United Kingdom; Paris, France Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

10,000 GBP–15,000 GBP/mo (120,000 GBP–180,000 GBP/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide 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.

About the Role

As a Field Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects and Solutions Engineers across the Qatar & Africa markets. Your experience partnering with the sales organisation will help drive revenue with the right approach whilst coaching sales and pre-sales teams 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 important partners in large corporations.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, mentor and grow the pre-sales team for the Qatar & Africa markets.
  • Build a motivated collaborative culture within a hyper-growth team to embody and promote Databricks customer-obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture.
  • Support increased return on investment of SA involvement in sales cycles.
  • Ensure a solution and value-based selling within the field-engineering organization.
  • Display an understanding of needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region.
  • Engage with key customer executives to build and strengthen strategic partnerships.
  • Ensure close alignment with partners and internal services to secure implementation strategies within accounts.
  • Continue to build Databricks' brand as a member of the Leadership team in partnership with Marketing and Sales teams across the region.

Requirements

  • Experience managing a team of successful Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS professionals.
  • Experience in consumption based business environments.
  • Have experience mentoring and scaling technical teams.
  • Success in instituting processes for technical field members to lead efficiency and product focus.
  • Ability to partner and collaborate with Sales and other cross-functional leaders.
  • Passionate about data and AI market and Cloud software models and being able to deliver a strong POV on the value of Databricks solutions.
  • Technical or consulting background either in Data Engineering, Database technologies or Data Science.
  • Strong communication skills.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.