# Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Tokyo, Japan
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, Java, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Data Engineering, Big Data, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Data Streaming, Artificial Intelligence, Databricks
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Leads and grows a customer-facing engineering team delivering complex data engineering and AI solutions for strategic customers. The role combines people leadership, executive stakeholder management, hands-on technical escalation, and expertise in modern data platforms and cloud technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a team of approximately 10 Forward Deployed Engineers.
- Build a culture of technical excellence, customer focus, and strong execution.
- Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to shape complex engagements and deliver business outcomes on the Databricks platform.
- Guide end-to-end solution delivery, including discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, and enablement.
- Build trusted relationships with technical and executive stakeholders as a senior advisor.
- Serve as the team’s senior technical escalation point, reviewing architectures, debugging production issues, and making high-stakes technical decisions.
- Coach engineers on solution design, stakeholder management, delivery quality, and career development.
- Partner with Sales, Field Engineering, Product, and Professional Services leadership on account strategy, staffing, and execution.
- Develop reusable patterns, delivery best practices, technical assets, and team processes.
- Help expand data engineering-led transformations involving modern data platforms, pipelines, governance, and production workloads.

## Requirements
- Experience leading, hiring, and developing high-performing technical teams in customer-facing environments.
- Current hands-on technical credibility, including design reviews, production debugging, and technical escalation ownership.
- Strong background in data engineering, big data systems, and production data platform delivery.
- Experience with ingestion, transformation, orchestration, warehousing, analytics/BI, or streaming in enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on fluency in Python and SQL.
- Experience scoping and guiding complex technical engagements, managing escalations, and delivering across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong executive communication skills and ability to translate technical decisions into business impact.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving, high-visibility customer environments.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Fluent Japanese and business-level English required.

## Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with Apache Spark and JVM languages such as Scala or Java.
- Experience delivering lakehouse, analytics, or AI-adjacent solutions in complex enterprise environments.
- Deep understanding of distributed data processing and modern data architecture patterns.
- Familiarity with data governance, security, and platform operating models.
- Experience building reusable delivery frameworks, technical accelerators, or practice-level standards.
- Track record of influencing cross-functional strategy across sales, product, and delivery organizations.
- Experience operationalizing AI coding tools such as Genie, Claude Code, or Codex.

## Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to regional employee needs.

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