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Manager, Field Engineering France - Specialist Solutions Architects

Databricks· Field Engineering
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Hybrid (Paris, France)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

The Specialist Solutions Architect Manager will lead a team of Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) responsible for key elements of the technical sales cycle, growing and developing a team with expertise in enterprise software, data engineering, and data science/machine learning, and enabling successful customer engagements and platform adoption for Databricks in France.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Experience in senior roles in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, or machine learning)
  • Experience in leading technical overlay customer-facing teams (team sizes greater than 8), preferably in a pre-sales organisation leading technical engagements
  • Trusted advisor to technical executives that guide strategic data infrastructure decisions
  • Team player, but able to challenge and define priorities
  • Self-starter, challenger, strategic planner & analytical thinker
  • Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, proof of concepts, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations
  • Experience hiring qualified candidates, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting into larger roles
  • Experience working with other teams such as Sales, Product Management, and Professional Services

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementEnterprise data strategyPre-sales and technical engagement

Benefits

  • Benefits details available in regional link linked in job description
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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