Field Engineering Manager, Specialist Solutions Architects - Nordics

Databricks
Stockholm, Denmark, Finland
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Mentoring","Strategic planning","Analytical thinking","Team leadership","Stakeholder management","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead and grow a team of Specialist Solutions Architects who drive deep technical expertise across Databricks’ most strategic, complex customer engagements. Partner with Sales and pre-sales field leadership to support technical sales cycles, resolve escalations, and guide customer architectures. Hire, train, and mentor managers of elite technical individual contributors, exceed regional consumption targets, promote Platform usage, and reduce churn through regional growth quota ownership.

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Field Engineering Manager, Specialist Solutions Architects - Nordics

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Job Summary

Lead and grow a team of Specialist Solutions Architects who drive deep technical expertise across Databricks’ most strategic, complex customer engagements. Partner with Sales and pre-sales field leadership to support technical sales cycles, resolve escalations, and guide customer architectures. Hire, train, and mentor managers of elite technical individual contributors, exceed regional consumption targets, promote Platform usage, and reduce churn through regional growth quota ownership.
Location: Stockholm, Denmark, Finland
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Hire, train, and grow a diverse team of Specialist Solutions Architects for Databricks.
  • •Exceed regional consumption targets by deciding where to deploy technical experts to drive critical use cases.
  • •Support complex sales cycles and customer architectures, providing deep technical expertise in strategic engagements.
  • •Oversee and retire a regional growth quota to grow Platform usage and prevent churn.
  • •Act as a supportive manager by handling escalations, mentoring team members, and building career paths while fostering collaboration with Field Engineering, Sales, and internal partners.
Travel: High travel

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years leading technical pre-sales and/or post-sales teams with a proven track record managing elite technical individual contributors.
  • •3+ years developing the data and AI space with highly technical platforms, such as distributed computing, cloud data warehousing, MLOps, or generative AI infrastructure.
  • •Elite command of technical qualification methodologies, architecture design validation, and structured proof-of-concept (POC/MVP) management.
  • •Trusted advisor to technical executives guiding strategic data infrastructure decisions.
  • •Experience hiring, ramping, and promoting qualified candidates; partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Product Management, and Forward Deployed Engineering.
Experience:5+ yearsData engineeringData scienceMachine learningPre-salesPost-salesMLOpsGenerative AI
Skills:CommunicationMentoringStrategic planningAnalytical thinkingTeam leadershipStakeholder managementCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Distributed computingCloud data warehousingMLOpsGenerative AI infrastructurePOC/MVPData engineeringData scienceMachine learning

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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