About the role
Databricks Learning & Enablement trains customers, partners, and Databricks employees on
the Data Intelligence Platform. As a Staff Technical Instructor, you deliver our most strategic
technical training and set the instructional quality bar for a global community of instructors
and training partners. You partner with curriculum, operations, and account teams to
translate real-world delivery experience into better courses, stronger instructors, and
measurable learner outcomes.
This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Global Delivery
Excellence. You are a thought partner to Senior Director+ stakeholders on training delivery.
What you will do
- Lead associate and professional-level instructor-led training across most of the Databricks catalog, virtual and in person, including tailored programs for strategic customers and large-scale events such as Data + AI Summit.
- Partner with curriculum teams on new course development and curriculum revamps so content reflects real delivery needs.
- Mentor Databricks Certified Instructors training partner instructors globally with timely, candid, actionable feedback.
- Use CSAT, NPS, and skill-progression data to identify and implement improvements in learner outcomes, instructor operations, tooling, and scheduling.
- Advise delivery leadership and account-facing teams on training plans, priorities, and emerging trends.
- Build AI-based tools to evolve training delivery readiness and in-class experiences.
What we look for
- Deep subject-matter expertise in at least one Databricks domain: Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, or Generative AI
- Most Databricks certifications completed, at both associate and professional levels
- Hands-on proficiency with the Databricks workspace, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow
- Declarative Pipelines, Lakeflow Jobs, Git folders, and Unity Catalog
- A track record of influencing training products, delivery processes, or tooling beyond your own classroom
- Experience mentoring and tailoring your coaching style to the individual
- Comfort presenting to and advising senior technical and business stakeholders
- Continuous study of industry trends and active investment in depth across additional technical domains
- Hands-on experience using AI to speed up course preparation, demo building, or delivery operations
Preferred qualifications
- ~8+ years in technical instruction, solutions architecture, data engineering, or data science, including ~4+ years delivering technical training to enterprise audiences
- Experience as a lead instructor or curriculum contributor for a technical course
- Experience designing or running train-the-trainer programs
- Experience running large-scale or event-based training programs