Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Financial Services (Banking and Payments)
Databricks · Illinois; Massachusetts; New York; Washington, D.C. · Field Engineering - Other · listed August 7, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Remote
Stated pay
$192,100 – $264,175 USD
Requirements listed
11
Length
831 words
In the posting’s own words
Candidates in the listed region are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates with a preference in the North East or Midwest at one of our office hubs.
What it asks for · 11
- Proven experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams - hiring, on-boarding, coaching and mentoring those teams to mature and grow into highly capable individual operators as well as exceptional team-players
- 10+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, machine learning, or more recently with generative AI)
- Trusted advisor to technical executives that guide strategic data infrastructure decisions
- Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, technical validations, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations
- Establish and foster external partnerships with systems integrators (SIs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) that maximize and accelerate client success
- Strong understanding of consumption-driven business models and the recipes for long term growth and success
- Experience hiring candidates that continually raise the bar, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting into larger roles
- Create a positive culture and morale for the team - fostering strong working relationships between Field Engineering, Sales, and other important internal cross-functional teams
- Experience working cross-functionally with other teams such as Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success
- Must be technical enough to earn the trust of Engineering talent and leadership at Databricks
- Ability to influence and review complex architectures; guiding your team and customers towards ideal solutions - that scale
What the job covers
- You will hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode
- Make your customers extremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses
- You will maintain a robust hiring pipeline of highly qualified, bar-raising candidates
- You will establish relationships across the business to make your customers and team successful
- You will keep your team of SAs ahead of the technical curve by ensuring they maintain advanced knowledge of the Databricks technology stack
- You will ensure that your team is continuously learning and working to provide our customers with the most comprehensive solutions for their needs
Tools and skills named
Data
- Databricks6×
- Data warehouse2×
Ways of working
- Mentorship2×
- Cross-functional
Go to market
- Customer success
- Partnerships
Models & research
- Machine learning
Product & design
- Product management
Words the posting leans on
- technical9×
- data8×
- customers6×
- field engineering6×
- experience4×
- sales4×
- solutions4×
- success4×
- lead3×
- maintain3×
- product3×
- successful3×
- accelerate2×
- architecture2×
- big2×
- business2×
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