Sr. Deployment Strategist, FDE - Public Sector

The role

You will act as a product manager for customer problems, bridging the gap between business problems and technical solutions. You will own the technical and product direction of engagements from discovery through production launch and adoption.

What you will do

• Partner with Sales to perform deep discovery and quantify business value
• Define the pilot, including MVP, success criteria, and timeline
• Author the PRD and prioritize the engineering backlog
• Manage scope and act as the primary hands-on QA tester
• Drive the FDE build team through an agile delivery process
• Manage stakeholders from the C-suite to individual engineers
• Lead technical discovery and design reviews
• Own the Day 0 launch and manage the war room
• Drive solutions from launch to full adoption
• Scope ongoing maintenance plans and create customer documentation

Required qualifications

• Strong executive presence and communication skills
• Ability to define what to build and why
• Ability to write product requirements and prioritize engineering work
• Ability to lead complex agile software projects
• Understanding of modern data and AI architectures
• Understanding of cloud platforms, data pipelines, data models, distributed systems, APIs, security and governance, machine learning, and generative AI application patterns
• Proficiency in at least one language, such as Python, Java, or SQL
• 7+ years of experience delivering complex, customer-facing data, analytics, AI, or software engagements, or equivalent experience as a founder or technical builder
• Experience delivering data, machine learning, or generative AI systems into production

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth technology company, forward-deployed organization, or leading consultancy

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.