CSQ227R26

Remote, Italy 

At Databricks, we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data problems with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA), you are a trusted technical advisor to key customers, providing expert guidance that translates data, analytics and AI challenges into high-impact business value. You help design, implement, and scale data and AI solutions, focusing on architecture, operational excellence, and customer enablement. Internally, you will collaborate with our sales and field engineering teams to accelerate the adoption and growth of the Databricks Platform in your customers.

Delivery Solutions Architects (DSAs) are trusted technical advisors embedded within the customer organization, providing expert guidance that translates data and AI challenges into high-impact business value. They help you design, implement, and scale data and AI solutions, focusing on architecture, operational excellence, and team enablement. DSAs focus on:

• Designing secure, scalable architecture 
• Aligning people, processes, and technology 
• Establishing trusted advisor relationships
• Leveraging the broader ecosystem of Databricks experts 

This is a hybrid technical and commercial role. Technically, the expectations are that you become the post-sales technical lead and trusted advisor across all Databricks products for the customer’s top priority use cases. This requires you to use your technical skills and credibility to engage and communicate with technical/technical leadership stakeholders in our customer organizations, do architecture reviews, help with performance and cost optimizations, demonstrate new capabilities, remove blockers, etc. In parallel, it is commercial in the sense that you will drive growth in your assigned customers and use cases through leading your customers' stakeholders, building executive relationships, orchestrating other focused/specialized teams within Databricks, and creating and driving onboarding plans. 

While not a hands-on-keyboard role, this is a highly technical position where architectural skills in fields such as Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Warehousing or Data Science are essential.

You will report directly to a DSA Manager within the Field Engineering organization.

The impact you will have:

• Be the Databricks Architect working with customer technical teams working on use cases/data products, from development to go-live, addressing any technical challenges and blockers and providing guidance, best practices and enablement
• Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks use cases within our most strategic accounts
• Be the internal point of contact for any questions related to production/go live status of agreed upon use cases within an account, often for multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations
• Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services and Support resources, along with escalating to expert-level technical teams to address the tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise
• Create  and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews and upgrade needs
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the below work streams:
• Main use cases moving from ‘win’ to production
• Enablement / user growth plan
• Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Databricks’ Lakehouse vision)
• Organic needs for current investment (e.g. cloud cost control, tuning & optimization)
• Executive and operational governance
• Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important risks, product adoption and use case progression - to your Technical GM
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews and upgrade needs, presenting them to the customers when applicable for their ongoing developments
• internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, risks and blockers, product adoption and use case progression - to your Field Engineering leadership

What we look for:

• 6-10 years of experience where you have been accountable for delivery of projects in  Data, Analytics or AI and where you can contribute to technical debate and design choices with customers
• Programming experience in PySpark, SQL or Scala 
• Understanding and hands-on experience of solution architecture-related distributed data and analytics systems
• Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, customer success, or consulting roles
• Understanding of how to attribute business value and outcomes to specific project deliverables
• Technical program coordination including account and stakeholder management
• Experience resolving complex and important escalation with senior customer technical stakeholders
• Track record of overachievement against quota, Goals or similar objective targets
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Can travel up to 30%

Senior Data Engineer (Perm, Italy, Remote with onsite requirements)

This is a permanent full time opportunity for those based in Italy.  This role will require travel onsite to Germany 

About Nearform
Nearform is an independent team of data & AI experts, engineers, and designers who build intelligent digital solutions and capability at pace. We create AI-enabled solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. In these ways, we partner with ambitious enterprises to deliver enduring impact.

Our deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems by unleashing the power of AI.

Today, our team of 500 experts in 20+ countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart.  

As part of our Engineering function, you will work closely with clients to translate complex business requirements into innovative digital products. Whether you are a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, or DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with distributed teams, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build secure, high-performance applications. Our Nearform engineers are known for building high quality, scalable solutions that solve real world problems.

About the Senior Data Engineer role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Nearform your main task will be designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms, pipelines, and warehouses using SQL, Python, Spark, and other relevant technologies. You will play a key role in building efficient data solutions, optimizing performance, and ensuring seamless data integration. However as you’ll likely work on a variety of projects your responsibilities may also include:

• Designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and ETL processes for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Developing and maintaining data platforms and warehousing solutions to support analytics and business intelligence needs.
• Implementing scalable data storage solutions and ensuring high availability and performance.
• Enhancing performance in data processing workflows for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into data engineering solutions.
• Ensuring data quality, governance, and compliance across all systems.
• Supporting CI/CD processes for data pipeline deployments and implementing best practices in DevOps for data workflows.
• Conducting code reviews and enforcing best practices in version control, automation, and testing.
• Assisting with defining structured source code management and deployment processes.
• Working with and supporting Technical Leaders in project execution and timely delivery.
• Collaborating with client teams.

What we are looking for in this person

• Significant experience delivering at a Senior Engineer level, specialising in Data engineering. Our Seniors typically have at least 6 years’ commercial experience.
• Practical experience of delivering in an agile environment.
• Practical experience and knowledge of developing real-world solutions.
• Extensive hands-on experience in SQL, Python, and Spark for large-scale data processing.
• Databricks experience 
• Strong expertise in data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar).
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks (Spark, Hadoop, or similar).
• Deep understanding of ETL processes, data modeling, and schema design.
• Strong experience with cloud-based data solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data lake architectures.
• Experience with automation, CI/CD for data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Deep understanding of versioning control tools - e.g. Git.
• Experience building software collaboratively using pull requests and code reviews.
• Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Must hold valid passport for travel.
• Travel - this role will require up to 1 week per month onsite in Germany.

Benefits & Perks:

• Annual Company Bonus - We all help Nearform to hit company goals so we all receive a share of the profits on an annual basis in line with company performance. 
• Work Remotely and Flexibly - We have a genuine dedication to work/life balance. Our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem! 
• Paid Time Off Package - We offer an annual leave of 28 days plus public holidays. 
• Remote Working Allowance - Every 2 years, you will have a budget of up to €1250 to help you set up a comfortable and productive workspace in addition to your essential equipment provided by Nearform when you join.
• Training and Development  - Nearform is committed to supporting and investing in employees’ ongoing learning and professional development. You will be encouraged to pursue relevant learning opportunities that support your growth and the growth of others, subject to manager approval.
• Healthcare - Health insurance is provided for under the applicable national collective labor agreement (CCNL) and may be through the Fondo Est or QuAS.
• Pension & Insurances - We provide statutory pension and access to a collective complementary pension scheme (CCNL-based, with employer contribution up to 1.55%), plus Death in Service cover.

Our Interview Process

Talent Call (30 mins via Zoom)
An introductory conversation with a member of our Talent Team to learn more about your background, experience, and career goals. We'll also provide a high-level overview of Nearform and answer any questions you may have. This step helps us assess initial alignment.

Technical Assessment (1 hour via Zoom)
A live coding challenge with one of our trained interviewers. You'll be asked to build a working solution to a problem via screen sharing, demonstrating your data engineering expertise, problem-solving ability, and coding best practices in a real-time environment.

Hiring Manager Interview (45 mins via Zoom)
A conversation with a Hiring Manager focused on your approach to teamwork, client collaboration, and problem-solving in an enterprise development setting. We'll also share more details about Nearform and the potential projects you may join.

There may also be an additional interview with the client depending on the project

Ready to Join Us?

If you're passionate about building high-quality applications, solving complex challenges, and driving innovation in enterprise development, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now via our careers page at Nearform and be part of a team that values technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Nearform is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence. 

If you require any adjustments to the interview process as part of your application, please let someone from our Talent Team know so they can help.  

The Team:

You’ll join the Value Engineering team, a highly technical, strategic, customer-facing group that sits at the intersection of pre-sales, analytics, and transformation consulting. Value Engineers at Celonis are hands-on practitioners. They combine strong technical capability with consulting and stakeholder skills to guide customers through the full value journey — from first demo to long-term adoption and expansion.

The Role:

As an Applied AI Engineer (Pre-Sales) you are pushing the envelope in solving business-critical problems for our customers. You will be working with our most strategic customers, understanding their objectives and key challenges, and building Celonis solutions using the world’s leading Process Intelligence (PI) platform in combination with the largest AI and ML technology partners, such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Databricks. With Celonis’ Process Intelligence (PI) platform we feed operational context to AI so it understands our customers’ business and enables them to industrialize AI unlocking real ROI on AI deployments and at scale. There is no AI without PI. You will prototype these solutions, demonstrate their value to Executives and ensure successful implementation, adoption and value realization in order to increase the footprint of Celonis at those customers.

The work you’ll do:

• AI Discovery & Solutioning: Understand customers AI strategy and business critical challenges. As Celonis product & domain expert, find the best problem-solution fit and translate customer requirements into innovative solutions that move the needle
• Hackathons & Prototyping: Think out of the box, have a „can-do“ attitude and don’t shy away from complex problems. Leverage cutting edge AI technologies to rapidly build creative prototypes in customer hackathons solving business critical problems
• Agentic Process Transformation: Support our customers in achieving real ROI out of AI deployments at scale enabling a fundamental shift in business operations from traditional, rule-based automation to the use of autonomous AI agents empowered by our Celonis Process Intelligence Platform
• Proof projects: End-to-end execution of business-critical Proof-of-Value projects, incl. architecture and deliver secure, scalable LLM/agent systems with RAG, tools, and guardrails; integrating with enterprise data, identity, and compliance frameworks.
• Ensure Successful Project Outcome: Applied AI Engineers stay involved with projects until agreed value & adoption thresholds are reached
• Specialize in Domains or Industries: To scale knowledge across the organization Applied AI Engineers specialize in domains (e.g. supply chain) and industries

The qualifications you need:

•  3+ years of experience leading technical pre-sales, including defining AI roadmaps, building compelling ROI/TCO business cases and prototyping of machine learning and generative AI solutions.
• Understanding of generative AI techniques like RAG, few shot learning, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, multimodal understanding, or fine-tuning that are used to build high-impact use cases like intelligent chatbots and automated text processors.
• Understanding of business processes across sectors (such as Supply Chain or Finance) with the ability to translate high-level business needs into specific AI use cases.
• Good knowledge of Python and common ML libraries (such as LangChain, pandas, pydantic, sklearn, PyTorch) as well as data engineering tools and technologies.
• Strong presentation skills to both internal and external stakeholders (including executives), whether whiteboarding sessions or formal readouts and demos.
• Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, physics, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• Hybrid working environment - 3 days per week at our central Milan offices.  

Nice to have (big plus):

• Hands-on experience building agentic systems using LLM orchestration, RAG, function calling, and prompt engineering, while ensuring safety through rigorous evaluations and guardrails.
• Working knowledge of tools in the LLM ecosystem such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or other OSS packages.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring models at scale across major cloud platforms (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, GCP Vertex)

RDQ326R15

The Incident Response team's mission is to respond to security threats, incidents and investigations to protect our customers, employees and enterprise data in a fast, efficient and standardised manner. We're a tight-knit team of security incident responders and incident handlers doing "Security for Databricks on Databricks", using our own platform to create near-real-time log analytics, alerting and forensics.

You will be an individual contributor on the security Incident Response (IR) team at Databricks, reporting to the regional IR manager. You will be responsible for conducting security analysis and forensics, responding to high-priority alerts and contributing to automations and agentic capabilities. You will be a security multiplier and help the team scale security incident response at Databricks.

The impact you will have:

• You will respond to incidents as part of a distributed 24x7 operations and on-call schedule.
• You will triage and respond to security events and alerts, ensuring quick and effective containment.
• You will contribute to security investigations, conducting analysis and forensics across a range of data sources to determine the timeline and impact of security events.
• You will build automations, including leveraging AI and agentic platforms, to deliver autonomous capabilities, expedite your work and scale the impact of the team.
• You will communicate technical decisions through design docs and tech talks, and mentor junior security responders via security guidance, design reviews and code reviews.

What we look for:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in Incident Response work OR Master's Degree AND 2+ years experience.
• Strong cloud security background in at least 1 of AWS, GCP or Azure, and working knowledge of the others.
• Knowledge of AI/LLM and agentic capabilities, including effective prompting and use of MCP, agents and agent skills. Prefer experience with building and operating agentic systems in a security setting.
• Broad security subject matter expertise.
• Expertise in few core IR skills (DFIR , Reverse Engineering, Traditional Network Security, Storage and access security, Sandboxing, Compute security, etc.).
• Experience with Enterprise Security and SaaS applications.
• Working knowledge of a SIEM and SOAR.
• Experience building Incident Response Tooling and scripting language skills.

FEQ426R195

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.

We are looking for a Director, Field Engineering in the Middle East & Africa to join our world-class hyper-growth organisation. In this role, you will lead first-line Managers and teams of pre-sales Solutions Architects focusing on complex accounts, helping to drive our expansion in the Middle East & Africa across the financial services, manufacturing, energy, public sector, healthcare and life sciences, retail and consumer goods, communications, media and entertainment business.

Your experience in partnering with sales organisations will help to grow consumption, whilst coaching new sales and pre-sales team members to work together and raise the bar to best in class. You will guide your team and be involved with opportunities to enhance your team's effectiveness. You must be an expert at communicating complex, business value-focused solutions; supporting complex sales cycles; and building relationships with key stakeholders in large corporations. This role will report to the AVP, Field Engineering - EMEA South.

The impact you will have:

• Hire and manage first line Managers and a growing team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects
• Build a collaborative culture within a rapid-growth team to embody and promote Databricks' customer-obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture
• Support our growing consumption business focusing on customer value and supporting your SA team in this motion
• Support increased return on investment of Solutions Architect involvement in sales cycles
• Create trust-based relationships with customers for the long term and understand category-specific landscapes and trends, reporting on the forces that shift the strategic direction of accounts
• Promote a solution and value-based selling field-engineering organisation
• Display an understanding of business needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region
• Build Databricks' brand in the Middle East & Africa in partnership with the Marketing and Sales team

What we look for:

• 5+ years of second-line leadership experience, manager of managers with teams of 20+ individuals
• Relevant high-growth enterprise software pre-sales success with senior-level tenure at a reputable software company, with experience of the EMEA region
• Ability to elevate the engagement with a track record of driving large transactions and high growth customers 
• Proven leadership ability to influence, develop, and empower your team to achieve objectives with a team approach 
• Proven track record of transformational success and delivery of customer value
• Track record of building strong ecosystems of lucrative customer relationships and cross-functional partnerships (Sales, Engineering, Marketing)
• Experience in complex strategic accounts generating +$1M ARR
• Knowledgeable in and passionate about data-driven decisions, AI, and Cloud software models
• Great at instituting processes for technical field members to improve efficiency
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience

SLSQ427R284

Want to help solve the world's toughest problems with data and AI? This is what we do every day at Databricks.

Databricks operates at the leading edge of the Data and AI space. Our customers turn to us to lead the accelerated innovation their businesses need to gain first-mover advantage in today's ultra-competitive landscape.

As an Enterprise Account Executive, you are a sales professional experienced in selling to Enterprise accounts in Italy. You know how to sell innovation and change through customer vision expansion and can guide deals forward to compress decision cycles. You love understanding a product in depth and are passionate about communicating its value to Customers and Partners. Always looking for new opportunities, you will close new accounts while maintaining existing accounts. 

You will report to the Sales Director for Italy. 

The impact you will have:

• Assess your territory and develop a successful execution strategy 
• Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for new logo accounts 
• Identify and close quick, small wins while managing longer, complex sales cycles
• Track all customer details, including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce
• Exceed activity and quarterly revenue targets
• Promote the value of the Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform 
• Ensure 100% satisfaction among all customers

What we look for:

• Understanding of the data platform and cloud ecosystems
• Exposure to the software industry and a good knowledge of selling SaaS, Data, and Business Value
• A good understanding of how to research company information and identify key stakeholders
• Competent with prospecting research and able to map out key stakeholders
• Adept in selling to technical buyers 
• Understanding of MEDDPICC
• Experience exceeding sales targets/quotas
• Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience
• Fluency in English and Italian is required

SLSQ427R278

Want to help solve the world's toughest problems with data and AI? This is what we do every day at Databricks.

Databricks operates at the leading edge of the Data and AI space. Our customers turn to us to lead the accelerated innovation their businesses need to gain first-mover advantage in today's ultra-competitive landscape.

We are looking for a creative, delivery-oriented Named Enterprise Account Executive to join the team in the Italy to maximise the phenomenal market opportunity that exists for Databricks. As an Account Executive, you know how to sell innovation and value to existing customers, identify new use cases and grow consumption and can guide deals forward to compress decision cycles. You love understanding a product in depth and are passionate about communicating its value to customers and partners. You will be offered huge potential for career progression with the pace of the team's growth.

You will report to the Sales Director, Italy. 

The impact you will have:

• You will co-develop a business plan, with your team and ecosystem partners, that accelerates customer success to exceed quarterly/annual consumption and booking goals
• You will lead your team, customers and partners to identify impactful data and AI use cases whilst proving out their value on the Databricks Data Intelligence platform
• You will implement the data and AI transformation goals of your customer through a combination of strategic partnerships, well scoped professional services, training and targeted Executive engagement
• You will develop an understanding of technical product details and roadmap to build trust with executives and technical champions

What we look for:

• Exstensive experience selling complex solutions to Enterprise Customers
• You will have experience managing and leading complex, federated sales campaigns in major accounts
• You will have experience working in Data, Cloud industries with some technical sales experience
• Proof of exceeding sales quotas in high-growth Enterprise software companies 
• You will have experience driving consumption and commit-based engagement models and strategies working with professional services and training teams
• You will have experience co-selling and scaling your business with Cloud Vendors (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud teams) and Global Solution Integrators (GSI)
• Experience of building effective champions, collaborative teams and partnerships to support execution of your account / territory plan
• Understanding of how to identify all key uses cases and buying centres in an opportunity to increase the impact of Databricks in an organisation
• Experience of following robust sales methodologies and process, e.g. account planning, MEDDPICC, Value Selling and accurate forecasting
• Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience
• Fluency in English and Italian is required

At Databricks, our core values are at the heart of everything we do; creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer-centric mindset guides us to create a unified platform that makes data science and analytics accessible to everyone. We aim to inspire our customers to make informed decisions that push their business forward. We provide a user-friendly and intuitive platform that makes it easy to turn insights into action and fosters a culture of creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

You will be an essential part of this mission, using your technical expertise to demonstrate how our Data Intelligence Platform can help customers solve their complex data challenges. You'll work with a collaborative, customer-focused team who values innovation and creativity, using your skills to create customized solutions to help our customers achieve their goals and guide their businesses forward.

Join us in our quest to change how people work with data and make a better world!

The impact you will have: 

• Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value in collaboration with an Account Executive and the other cross-functional teams.
• Gain excitement from clients about Databricks through hands-on evaluation and Spark programming, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications.
• Contribute to building the Databricks technical through engagement at workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
• Become a Big Data Analytics advisor on aspects of architecture and design.
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.
• Develop both technically and in the pre-sales aspect with the goal of becoming an independently operating Sr.Solutions Engineer.

What we look for:

• Familiarity working with clients, creating a narrative, answering customer questions, aligning the agenda with important interests, and achieving tangible outcomes.
• Ability to independently deliver a technical proposition, identify customers' pain-points, and explain important areas for business value to develop a trusted advisor skillset.
• Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and design.
• Knowledgeable in a core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform.
• Code in a core programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala.

Notes on mandatory requirements: 

• The location for the role must be in the Milan region (or within a commutable distance for a hybrid schedule). We might consider to hire someone based out of Rome.
• Fluency in Italian and English is required as a minimum.

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Mission

Databricks is at the forefront of innovation in the data and AI industry, empowering organizations to harness the power of data and artificial intelligence.

As Sr. Field Marketing Manager for Italy, Spain and Israel, you will play a pivotal role in driving demand generation and business growth across the region. You will be responsible for crafting and executing innovative regional marketing strategies that generate high-quality leads, convert them into opportunities, and build a robust sales pipeline. This cross-functional role requires close collaboration with teams across Marketing, Sales Development, Sales, Partner Management, and other field teams. You will initially report to the Director, EMEA Continental Marketing.

The impact you’ll have

• Build the territory strategy with sales stakeholders and execute regional marketing programs
• Lead end-to-end execution of all regional field marketing programmes and events, both physical and virtual, ensuring seamless delivery and high engagement. This includes onsite execution with occasional multi-day travel (currently no travel to Israel until further notice)
• Build data-driven and integrated marketing plans in close alignment with corporate and EMEA marketing to increase awareness, drive engagement, generate leads, and support conversion rates.
• Evaluate and execute the most effective partner and third party event co-marketing opportunities
• Effectively manage budgets and evaluate ROI of all campaigns
• Collaborate closely with SDR and sales teams to enhance lead-to-opportunity conversion rates
• Generate qualified leads through innovative and cost-effective marketing strategies, driving pipeline growth, consumption and revenue
• Leverage data to continuously refine and optimize campaign strategies, ensuring sustained business growth and programme optimization
• Establish strong communication channels with sales and regional teams to ensure the delivery of impactful marketing campaigns tailored to the region

What we look for

• Proven experience in managing field marketing events, including proprietary, third-party and virtual events, with a track record of successful execution
• Demonstrated ability to deliver tangible business results through strategic marketing programs
• Ability to lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams in a dynamic and fast-paced enterprise software environment
• Strong ability to develop and optimize data-driven marketing plans, consistently meeting KPIs within budget and tight deadlines
• Proven capability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously, with a focus on execution and delivery
• Fluent in English, and at least one of either Italian or Spanish

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Note: Location for the role is in Milan (i.e. within commutable distance).

As a Field Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects and Solutions Engineers in Italy. Your experience partnering with the sales organization will help drive revenue with the right approach whilst coaching sales and pre-sales teams to work together. 

You will guide and get involved to enhance your team's effectiveness; be an expert at communicating complex, business value-focused solutions, support complex sales cycles, and build relationships with important partners in large corporations.

The impact you will have:

• Hire, mentor and grow the pre-sales team in Italy
• Build a motivated collaborative culture within a hyper-growth team to embody and promote Databricks customer-obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture
• Support increased return on investment of SA involvement in sales cycles
• Ensure a solution and value-based selling within the field-engineering organization
• Display an understanding of needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region
• Engage with key customer executives to build and strengthen strategic partnerships
• Ensure close alignment with partners and internal services to secure implementation strategies within accounts
• Continue to build Databricks' brand as a member of the Leadership team in partnership with Marketing and Sales teams across the region

What we look for:

• Experience managing a team of successful Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS professionals
• Experience in consumption based business environments
• Have experience mentoring and scaling technical teams
• Success in instituting processes for technical field members to lead efficiency and product focus
• Ability to partner and collaborate with Sales and other cross-functional leaders
• Passionate about data and AI market and Cloud software models and being able to deliver a strong POV on the value of Databricks solutions
• Technical or consulting background either in Data Engineering, Database technologies or Data Science
• Strong communication skills. Italian native-speaker and fluent in English.

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At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive.
If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

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What you will do: 

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Core Data team and play a key role in transforming TheFork’s data capabilities through the implementation of a modern, self-service Data Platform (DPaaS).

In this role, you will not only build scalable, production-grade data pipelines, but also contribute to designing and evolving the platform that enables domain teams to autonomously produce and consume trusted data products.

You will apply strong software engineering principles to data engineering, help define governance standards, and actively contribute to shifting our organisation from a centralised BI model to a federated, domain-oriented data ecosystem.

You will report directly to the Senior Data Engineering Manager and work in close collaboration with:

• DataOps team: who own the Data Platform infrastructure
• Architects: to ensure technical decisions align with enterprise architecture
• BI teams, Engineering teams and Data Science teams: who are the main consumers of the platform

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Design and implement scalable, production-grade data pipelines following strong software engineering practices (version control, CI/CD, automated testing, observability).
• Lead the evolution of orchestration patterns in Airflow to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive technical POCs to evaluate new tools, architectural patterns, and performance improvements aligned with the platform roadmap.
• Contribute to shaping and validating the target data architecture in collaboration with Architects, Staff Engineers, and DataOps.
• Proactively identify system weaknesses and design for failure, defining mitigation strategies and resilience patterns.

Data Governance & Quality

• Implement and enforce data contracts and quality controls aligned with defined SLOs.
• Apply data modeling best practices including medallion architecture to create trusted, reusable data assets
• Contribute to establishing domain ownership principles and clear single sources of truth.
• Ensure lineage, metadata, and observability mechanisms are embedded by design in all pipelines.

Enablement & Collaboration

• Drive technical alignment across teams through clear documentation, standards, and mentoring.
• Partner with DataOps to ensure infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform automation at scale.
• Actively support product and engineering teams in adopting the platform, with a strong focus on developer experience.
• Build cross-functional relationships to accelerate adoption and drive platform impact.

Technical Expertise

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications 

Minimum 6 years of data engineering experience, including significant exposure to production-grade data platforms and cross-team leadership.

Data Platform & Architecture

• Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud lakehouse in production-grade environments (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, …).
• Strong expertise in analytical data modeling (including medallion architecture) and safe schema evolution.
• Proven experience designing scalable, incremental ELT pipelines.
• Strong understanding of MPP systems and distributed data processing principles.

Performance & Cost Optimization

• Experience optimizing query performance and compute cost in cloud data warehouses.
• Cost-aware design mindset.

Orchestration & Data Integration

• Advanced proven experience with Airflow, including scalable DAG design, dependency management, and failure handling strategies.
• Strong experience designing and operating production-grade ELT pipelines using modern integration tools (e.g. Airbyte or similar) or custom ingestion frameworks.
• Experience designing self-service data platform capabilities is a strong plus.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

• Strong experience with AWS-based data architectures (S3, IAM, networking fundamentals).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
• Understanding of security-by-design principles in cloud data environments.

Data Quality, Governance & Observability

• Experience implementing data quality frameworks, data contracts, and validation strategies.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage tracking, and monitoring practices.
• Experience embedding observability and reliability into pipelines (alerting, SLOs, incident response mindset).

Execution & Autonomy

• Lead initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing to production rollout, with high autonomy.
• Structure complex technical problems into actionable plans and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Make informed architectural trade-offs balancing scalability, cost, reliability, and time-to-market.
• Take ownership of platform stability and continuously improve operational excellence.
• Mentor and help other engineers grow through technical guidance and feedback.

What we offer you:

😄 An awesome team 

🏠 A permanent contract (that can be useful in life) 

⚖️Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week +  up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

💸 Competitive fixed salary and bonus 

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)  

🌎 International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe

🤝 Highly inclusive working environment 

🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc 

🎓 Continuous learning and development programs

😌 Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

🐣Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)

🏥Health insurance

👩‍🦽 Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area    

🎤 Team building events

All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application,  interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.

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