Manager - Specialist Solutions Architects

Databricks; Paris; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Field Engineering Manager for Specialist Solutions Architects in France. You will lead a growing team of SSAs, guiding complex data and ML-driven solutions across key accounts.

You will partner with Sales and Solutions Architects to shape technical account strategies and ensure customer success. You will mentor, hire, and develop talent, while engaging with executives to align on data infrastructure and platform adoption.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical overlay teams (>8) in pre-sales environments.
• Trusted advisor to tech executives guiding data infrastructure decisions.
• Strong ability to articulate complex, business-value solutions to diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a diverse SSA team for Databricks in France.
• Drive adoption of the Databricks platform across strategic accounts and prevent churn.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product Management and Professional Services to shape technical account strategy.
• Mentor team members, manage escalations, and craft career paths for direct reports.

Skills

Team leadership

Data engineering

Machine learning

Enterprise software

Strategic planning

Pre-sales

Hiring mentoring

Job description

FEQ327R159

Field Engineering Manager - Specialist Solutions Architects France

The Specialist Solutions Architect Manager will lead a team of Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) responsible for key elements of the technical sales cycle. You will grow and develop a dynamic team with expertise in areas including enterprise software, data engineering, and data science/machine learning, who will continue to deepen their knowledge of Databricks as the platform expands. 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 customer architectures; and build relationships with key stakeholders in large corporations.

The SSA Team is engaged in our most important and complex customer engagements, providing deep technical expertise to both new and existing customers. Your team provides specialist expertise to the Solution Architect (SA) and Sales teams, which are responsible for developing and overseeing the overall technical account strategy.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Field Engineering (Specialist).

The impact you will have:

• 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.

What we look for:

• 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-façing 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

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — 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. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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