Field Engineering Manager, Specialist Solutions Architects - Nordics

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Lead a team of Specialist Solutions Architects responsible for key elements of the technical sales cycle
• ● Hire, train, and grow a diverse team of Specialist Solutions Architects for Databricks
• ● Exceed the region's consumption targets by deploying the team of technical experts to drive critical use cases
• ● Make customers extremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses
• ● Establish relationships across the business to support customers and team success
• ● 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 foster a working relationship between Field Engineering, Sales, and other 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, and building a career path for the assigned team members

Requirements

• ● 5+ years of experience leading Data & AI Engineering teams, technical pre sales and/or post sales teams, with a proven track record in managing elite technical individual contributors
• ● 5+ years of hands on experience in developing data solutions with highly technical platforms such as distributed computing, cloud data warehousing, MLOps, and Generative AI infrastructure
• ● Strong skillset in technical discovery, 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, and analytical thinker
• ● Experience hiring qualified candidates, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting them into larger roles
• ● Experience working with other teams such as Sales, Product Management, and Forward Deployed Engineering teams
• ● Preferred location to hire is in Stockholm, Sweden, or the Nordics region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland)