Manager, Technical Solutions Spark

Menlo Ventures; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Manager (Data & AI) for Technical Solutions Engineering to lead a regional team of data and AI experts in India. The role focuses on resiliency, production workloads, and 24x7 coverage across APJ/EMEA hours, coordinating with global teams.

You will grow technical expertise, engage with top customers, and partner with internal engineering to improve products and supportability, ensuring reliable platforms and smooth operations.

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership experience: at least 3+ years as a manager.
• 10+ years in the IT industry with a background in Software Engineering and Data Eng.
• Experience leading teams in engineering, technical support, or consulting; customer facing is highly desirable.
• Hands-on in production scale with at least two: Big Data, ML, Data Science/Streaming.
• Spark expertise is a big advantage.
• Strong ownership mindset in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a regional team of Data & AI technical experts in India.
• Ensure 24x7 coverage with APJ/EMEA alignment and cross-region coordination.
• Advance adoption of new Databricks products and features.
• Engage with top customers to support their Data & AI strategy.
• Collaborate with product engineering to improve Databricks products.

Skills

People leadership

Data engineering

Big Data

Cloud experience

Customer facing

Spark

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's / Master's in CS

Tools

Hadoop

Kafka

Spark

ML frameworks

Job description

CSQ127R179

Mission

The Manager (Data & AI) for Technical Solutions Engineering will be responsible for leading and growing a regional team of Data & AI technical experts in India, focused on providing resiliency and smooth operation of customer production workloads. This leader will oversee support operations during APJ and EMEA business hours with close alignment with other global teams to ensure 24x7 support coverage through coordination with other regions. This team resolves complex and long-running data engineering use cases raised by Databricks customers to support the success of live use cases - which includes performance optimization, ensuring resiliency of production jobs, helping customers stabilize workloads on new products and features, and more. You will be able to understand the real-world business problems our customers are solving with data and are committed to helping them achieve reliability and performance of their systems to meet their goals.

The impact you will have:

• 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.

Competencies & Requirements

• 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.

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.

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Benefits

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