Field CTO - America Industries

The role

This individual contributor role serves as a senior technology and business transformation thought leader for strategic accounts in regulated industries. You will work with C-level leaders to drive multi-year change on the data platform and represent customer needs back to Databricks.

What you will do

• Build and maintain trusted-advisor relationships with C-level executives in large US-based and global accounts.
• Cultivate a professional network across customer executives, boards, industry bodies, and partners.
• Shape executive thinking on modern data and AI architectures.
• Lead C-level briefings, strategy sessions, and multi-day workshops.
• Serve as a deep technical counterpart with L200–L300 proficiency across Databricks products.
• Generalize patterns from the field into reusable reference architectures, blueprints, and best practices.
• Orchestrate the broader ecosystem including cloud providers, GSIs, consultancies, and ISVs.
• Partner with sales and technical teams to drive complex, multi-year sales cycles.
• Provide structured, prioritized feedback from customers into Product and Engineering.
• Mentor senior Field Engineering and industry-focused talent.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology and consulting.
• Experience leading or advising on multi-year data platform and analytics transformations in large, complex organizations.
• Significant time spent inside a large enterprise software or cloud company.
• Direct industry exposure.
• Experience in or with regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, public sector, regulated manufacturing, or utilities.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations affecting data and AI platforms.
• Background in hands-on technology and architecture work on data platforms and analytics.
• Background in organizational and operating model change.
• Background in executive consulting or advisory.
• Ability to operate as a peer to C-level executives.
• Strong, proactive networker.
• Demonstrated longevity and impact in prior roles.

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.