Lead Field Technical Program Manager, FDE - Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel, Transportation & Hospitality

The role

You will provide technical leadership and guidance to implementation teams to deliver complex customer engagements. You will manage program aspects including scope, schedule, budget, risk, and resources for customers in Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel, Transportation, and Hospitality.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the implementation team for complex customer engagements.
• Guide technical teams through key architectural decisions and trade-offs.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and dependencies.
• Produce high-quality deliverables, status reports, program plans, and customer responses.
• Manage program scope, schedule, budget, risk, and resources.
• Act as the primary point of escalation for customers regarding technical delivery issues.
• Build trust with technical teams and stakeholders by articulating solutions and facilitating meetings.

Required qualifications

• Ability to stay current on technology trends and make sound technical decisions without being a hands-on coder.
• Experience managing large, complex engagements and mitigating unexpected technical challenges.
• Familiarity with managing trade-offs between scope, budget, and timeline.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Track record of influencing technical teams and tailoring messages for different audiences.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple engagements.

Nice to have

• Experience with BI, data management, and big data technologies

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.