Manager - Tech Solutions (Big Data / AI)
Databricks
Bengaluru, IndiaOtherLead / ManagerFull-time
Role at a glance
Lead a Bengaluru team of data and AI experts delivering technical support for customer production workloads across APJ and EMEA hours.
- →Lead and grow regional team of Data & AI technical experts in India
- →Oversee support operations during APJ and EMEA business hours
- →Resolve complex data engineering use cases including performance optimization
- →Engage with top customers on Data & AI strategy
- →Partner with product engineering teams to improve platform supportability
Who should apply
Candidates with 3+ years of people management and 12+ years in software engineering, specializing in data engineering with big data or cloud exposure. They should have led engineering or customer-facing teams, possess hands-on production experience in at least two areas such as Spark-based big data or machine learning, and demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems.
Skills & technologies
sparkhadoopkafkamachine learningdata engineeringbig datadistributed systemstroubleshooting
Full job description
As published by Databricks on their official careers page.
CSQ127R179
Mission
The Manager (Data & AI) for Technical Solutions Engineering will be responsible for leading and growing a regional team of Data & AI technical experts in India, focused on providing resiliency and smooth operation of customer production workloads. This leader will oversee support operations during APJ and EMEA business hours with close alignment with other global teams to ensure 24x7 support coverage through coordination with other regions. This team resolves complex and long-running data engineering use cases raised by Databricks customers to support the success of live use cases - which includes performance optimization, ensuring resiliency of production jobs, helping customers stabilize workloads on new products and features, and more. You will be able to understand the real-world business problems our customers are solving with data and are committed to helping them achieve reliability and performance of their systems to meet their goals.
The impact you will have:
- Serve as the Tech Solutions Manager for an elite team of Data & AI specialists that can provide coverage of customers across EMEA & APJ business hours.
- Grow the technical expertise of the team to support successful adoption of new products and features of the Databricks platform for customer production workloads.
- Engage with top customers to understand how to support their business needs with their Data & AI strategy, in collaboration with field engineering and sales when required.
- Partner with internal product engineering teams to make Databricks products better and more supportable.
- Understand how to maintain high reliability of the Databricks platform to successfully achieve customer business goals.
Competencies & Requirements
- Proven people leadership experience: at least 3+ years as a manager
- 12+ years in the IT industry, with a strong background in Software Engineering with specialization in Data Engineering, ideally with Big Data & Cloud experience.
- Experience leading teams either in engineering, technical support, or consulting. Support experience is not required - but customer facing experience is highly desirable.
- Hands-on experience in at least two of the following at production scale:
- Big Data (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence projects
- Data Science / Streaming use cases
- Spark expertise is a big advantage.
- Strong background in customer-facing support leadership roles.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
- Strong ownership mindset with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment with evolving needs.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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