Remote Senior Field Engineering Leader - FinServ SAs

Neon; Illinois; Remote; USD 192,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering to lead a team of Solutions Architects focused on the Financial Services segment. You will partner with Sales and other Field Engineering segments to drive revenue and customer success using the Data + AI platform.

You will hire, train, and grow a high-performing team, maintain a strong hiring pipeline, and ensure the team stays ahead of the technology curve. This role offers remote work with office hubs in the North East and Midwest.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams.
• 8+ years of experience in data space with a technical product (data warehousing, big data, ML, or generative AI).
• Trusted advisor to technical executives guiding data infrastructure decisions.
• Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, validations, architecture discussions, and product demos.
• Understand consumption-driven business models and growth strategies.
• Experience hiring and promoting high-potential candidates.
• Foster a positive culture and collaboration across Field Engineering, Sales, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to influence complex architectures and guide scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects.
• Make customers successful with Databricks and deliver outsized value.
• Maintain a robust hiring pipeline of qualified candidates.
• Establish relationships across the business to support customers and the team.
• Keep the team ahead of the technology curve with the Databricks stack.
• Encourage continuous learning to meet customer needs.

Skills

Leadership of pre-sales teams

8+ years data/analytics experience

Trusted advisor to technical execs

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural guidance and product D&D

Databricks product stack

Tools

Databricks product stack

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering to lead a team of Solutions Architects focused on the Financial Services segment. You will partner with Sales and other Field Engineering segments to drive revenue and customer success using the Data + AI platform.

You will hire, train, and grow a high-performing team, maintain a strong hiring pipeline, and ensure the team stays ahead of the technology curve. This role offers remote work with office hubs in the North East and Midwest.