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Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Telco

Databricks· Field Engineering
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United States$172.5k - $237.2kfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Leadership role managing a Solutions Architecture team for the Telecommunications segment within Databricks’ Field Engineering organization, focusing on pre-sales/solutions architecture for enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, data science, and AI; partners with Sales to drive revenue and customer success.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, train, grow, and manage a team of Solutions Architects for the Telecommunications Segment
  • Make customers successful with Databricks and provide outsized value
  • Maintain a robust hiring pipeline
  • Establish relationships across the business to enable customer and team success
  • Partner with sales leadership to hit sales and consumption targets while ensuring customer success
  • Keep the team ahead of the tech curve with continuous learning and advanced knowledge of the data+AI stack
  • Lead technical qualification, proofs of concept, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations
  • Foster positive team culture and cross-functional collaboration with Field Engineering, Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams (hiring, onboarding, coaching, enabling)
  • 7+ years of experience in the Data + AI space with a technical product (data warehousing, big data, data science, machine learning, or AI)
  • Deep technical understanding of impact of Data + AI across industry segments
  • Technical competence to earn trust of Engineering talent and leadership at Databricks
  • Trusted advisor to technical executives guiding strategic data infrastructure decisions
  • Experience leading teams through technical qualification, PoCs, architecture discussions, and demos
  • Experience hiring and ramping pre-sales professionals, promoting into larger roles, addressing performance issues, and improvement plans
  • Ability to create a positive team culture and collaborate with Sales and internal partners
  • Experience working with Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success
  • Demonstrated architectural influence guiding scalable solutions

Skills

Required:Solutions Architecture leadershipPre-sales and technical leadershipData + AI domain expertise

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package (region-specific details available through provided link)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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