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Manager, Technical Solutions Spark

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bengaluru, India)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Leader of a regional Data & AI technical solutions team in India, responsible for ensuring 24x7 support coverage, resiliency of customer production workloads, and collaboration with global teams to drive reliability and performance of Databricks platform for live use cases.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the Tech Solutions Manager for an elite team of Data & AI specialists that can provide coverage of customers across EMEA & APJ business hours.
  • Grow the technical expertise of the team to support successful adoption of new products and features of the Databricks platform for customer production workloads.
  • Engage with top customers to understand how to support their business needs with their Data & AI strategy, in collaboration with field engineering and sales when required.
  • Partner with internal product engineering teams to make Databricks products better and more supportable.
  • Understand how to maintain high reliability of the Databricks platform to successfully achieve customer business goals.

Qualifications

  • Proven people leadership experience: at least 3+ years as a manager
  • 10+ years in the IT industry, with a strong background in Software Engineering with specialization in Data Engineering, ideally with Big Data & Cloud experience.
  • Experience leading teams either in engineering, technical support, or consulting. Support experience is not required - but customer facing experience is highly desirable.
  • Hands-on experience in at least two of the following at production scale: Big Data (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka); Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence projects; Data Science / Streaming use cases
  • Spark expertise is a big advantage.
  • Strong background in customer-facing support leadership roles.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
  • Strong ownership mindset with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment with evolving needs.
  • Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.

Skills

Required:People leadershipSoftware Engineering (Data Engineering)Big Data technologies
Nice to have:Customer-facing experienceSpark

Benefits

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

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