Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
Databricks
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- What do you do when a production issue happens on your code?
- Walk me through a system you built. How was it designed, and what would you change now?
- Tell me about a hard bug you tracked down. How did you find the cause?
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- Hire great people and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
- Participate in key technical and design discussions with technical leads in the team as a hands-on manager
- Experience leading the development of IP, reusable tooling, and assets for field professional services teams and partners
- Partner with key business stakeholders to prioritise work and create amazing products to support our data platform.
- Manage a team of technical data engineers to achieve customer, company, and team goals
- Acts as the first point of escalation for customers when they have questions with our delivery. Additionally, provides escalation as needed into other parts of Databricks to ensure rapid resolution of technical and business issues.
- Provide input to grow and improve internal processes and customer success service offerings.
- Effectively builds and leverages customer relationships throughout the sales and delivery process.
- 12+ years of industry experience
- 6+ years of successful experience in a customer facing role
- 4+ years of experience leading a technical team of Data Engineers / Architects
- Extensive experience in Big Data ecosystem (Spark, Hadoop ecosystem, Cassandra etc)
- Knowledge of AWS / Azure / GCP
- Knowledge of Databricks ecosystem is a plus
- Proven documentation skills, along with strong project management experience.
- Strong abilities manage multiple engagements, while delivering extremely high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Excellent people skills to partner with various key business stakeholders.
- Conversant with business issues our customers face today and likely big data use cases in different industries
- Experience estimating effort and scope for services
- Private medical insurance
- Accident coverage
- Employee's Provident Fund
- Equity awards
- Paid parental leave
- Gym reimbursement
- Annual personal development fund
- Work headphones reimbursement
- Business travel insurance
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.
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