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Databricks is seeking a Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO) for the Americas Industries Business Unit to be a senior, customer-facing technology and business transformation thought leader for our most strategic, often global, accounts in regulated industries. This individual contributor role sits at the intersection of data and AI strategy, industry transformation, and executive relationship-building, working closely with C-level leaders to drive multi-year change on the data platform while representing real-world needs back into Databricks.​

Impact you will have:

• Build and maintain trusted-advisor relationships with C-level executives (CIO, CDO, CTO, CISO, business COs) in large US-based and global accounts, especially in highly regulated industries (financial services, public sector, healthcare, manufacturing).​
• Proactively cultivate a strong social and professional network across customer executives, boards, key industry bodies, and partners, knowing which organizations and forums to engage to open doors with the right stakeholders.​
• Shape executive thinking on modern data and AI architectures, with emphasis on Lakehouse and data platform modernization as the primary lever for long-term Gen AI impact.​
• Lead C-level briefings, strategy sessions, and multi-day workshops that connect business outcomes, regulatory constraints, and operating model change to concrete Databricks-based roadmaps.​
• Serve as a deep technical counterpart in the field, maintaining L200–L300 proficiency across Databricks products and being able to credibly engage architects, data engineers, and data scientists on solution design and trade-offs.​
• Generalize patterns from the field into reusable reference architectures, industry blueprints, and best practices for regulated industries, and share them through blogs, webinars, whitepapers, and conference keynotes.​
• Orchestrate the broader ecosystem (cloud providers, GSIs, consultancies, ISVs) around customer objectives, ensuring Databricks is at the center of multi-year transformation programs rather than isolated projects.​
• Partner with Account Executives, Solutions Architects, Industry Leads, and Product Specialists to drive complex, multi-year sales cycles, securing platform decisions and expansions while influencing ACV and consumption growth.​
• Provide structured, prioritized feedback from strategic customers into Product, Engineering, and Field leadership to influence product roadmap, especially around data, governance, security, and regulated-industry requirements.​
• Mentor senior Field Engineering and industry-focused talent, contributing to a pipeline of principal- and CTO-level leaders and codifying ways of working for complex, regulated accounts.​

What we look for:

• 15+ years of experience spanning enterprise technology and consulting, including 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 (e.g., Microsoft or similar) in roles that required navigating matrixed organizations and driving change at scale, combined with direct industry exposure rather than a career spent solely in horizontal software.​
• Experience in or with regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, public sector, regulated manufacturing, utilities), with familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations affecting data and AI platforms.​
• Background that blends:
• Hands-on technology and architecture work on data platforms and analytics.​
• Organizational and operating model change (ways of working, skills, governance).​
• Executive consulting or advisory, ideally seeing transformations through from strategy to multi-year execution, not only strategy decks.​
• Proven ability to operate as a highly credible peer to C-level executives, driving business-outcome-focused conversations while also diving deep into technical details when needed.​
• Strong, proactive networker who is naturally curious about which associations, councils, and forums matter for a given customer set, and who uses those networks to create new executive entry points and opportunities.​
• Demonstrated longevity and impact in prior roles, with evidence of building and sustaining long-term customer relationships and programs rather than frequent short stints.​

RDQ226R605; This role can be based remotely anywhere in the United States. 

The Product Security Team's mission is to Left-shift SDLC (Security Development Lifecycle) processes for ALL code written in Databricks (for Customer Use or Supporting Customer internally) to reduce the likelihood of introducing new vulnerabilities in production and minimize the count and effect of externally identified vulnerabilities on Databricks Services.

You will be an individual contributor on the product security team at Databricks, managing SDLC functions for features and products within Databricks. This would include, but is not limited to, security design reviews, threat models, manual code reviews, exploit writing and exploit chain creation. You will also support IR and VRP programs when there is a vulnerability report or a product security incident. You will work with a global team, spread across various locations in the US and EMEA.

The impact you will have:

• Full SDLC Support for new product features being developed in ENG and non-ENG teams. This would include Threat Modeling, Design Review, Manual Code Review, Exploit writing, etc.
• Work with other security teams to provide support for Incident Response and Vulnerability Response as and when needed.
• Work with the results of SAST tools to help evaluate and identify false positives and file defects for real issues.
• Work on DAST tools and related automation for auto-assessment and defect filing.
• Maintain the automation framework and add new features as needed to support different security compliances that Databricks may want to get into – FedRamp, PCI, HIPPA, etc.
• Prioritize security from a risk management perspective, rather than an absolute textbook version.
• Help develop and implement security processes to improve the overall productivity of the product security organization and the SDLC process in general

What we look for:

• 3-10 years Experience with the Threat Modeling process and ability to find design problems based on a block diagram of data flow.
• Solid understanding on at least two of the following domains - Web Security, Cloud Security, Systems Security and Applied Cryptography.
• Proficient with one or more of Programming languages ( Python/Java/Scala/JavaScript) and ability to read code to identify security defects.
• Strong skills on scripting and automation on exploits
• Fuzzing skills are good to have.
• Exploit writing skills is a positive and greatly required.