Sr. Manager, Field Engineering
Databricks
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Description
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Location: Sydney
As a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering, you will lead a diverse team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects covering the APJ region. You’ll play a key leadership role at the intersection of technology and business—guiding your team to design impactful solutions and drive growth through collaboration and innovation.
You’ll empower your team to communicate complex ideas with clarity, support strategic enterprise customer engagements, and build lasting partnerships with clients and internal stakeholders.
The impact you will have:
- Lead, mentor, and support a high-performing, inclusive pre-sales team
- Foster an environment of belonging, continuous learning, and psychological safety that reflects Databricks’ values of customer focus, teamwork, and diversity.
- Work closely with Sales and other teams to identify opportunities and deliver data-driven, value-focused solutions.
- Establish best practices that improve team efficiency, collaboration, and business impact.
- Build trusted relationships with customers and partners, acting as a strategic advisor in their digital transformation journey.
- Partner with Marketing, Sales, Services, and other cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless customer experience.
- Represent Databricks as part of the regional leadership team, contributing to our local presence and inclusive culture.
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.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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About this role
Leading Databricks' pre-sales engineering function across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region, this role puts you at the helm of a team of Solutions Architects responsible for designing and delivering technical solutions that drive customer adoption and growth. You'll operate at the intersection of sales strategy and technical delivery, working closely with enterprise customers during their data and AI transformation initiatives while collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Services, and regional leadership to shape how Databricks shows up in the market.
The position demands strong people leadership—you'll mentor and develop your team, foster psychological safety and continuous learning, and establish practices that improve both team performance and business outcomes. Your success depends on building trusted relationships with customers and internal stakeholders alike, translating complex technical concepts into business value, and representing Databricks' values and culture as part of the regional leadership team.
This is suited to someone with proven experience managing technical pre-sales or solutions engineering teams, a track record of supporting enterprise customer engagements, and the ability to balance team development with direct business impact. The role is based in Sydney and requires in-office presence.
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