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The Senior Presales Architect is responsible for architecting solutions that will achieve customer business outcomes either within a specific technical domain, or across the broader company portfolio (hardware, software, services, and as a service offerings) in combination with all necessary third-party components (e.g. software and integration). This role develops and articulates compelling, accurate, and relevant proposals and ensures customer's business and technical requirements are met. This role can be aligned to a specific area of technical expertise (e.g., products, solutions, services). Provides technical expertise to sales teams and customers (through sales presentations, product/solution demonstrations, etc.) aimed at gaining the customer mindshare within their domain. These jobs focus on technical selling to customers/partners. May be aligned to specific accounts based on business priority.
Job Responsibility:
Architecting solutions that will achieve customer business outcomes
Develops and articulates compelling, accurate, and relevant proposals
Provides technical expertise to sales teams and customers
Quantifies the impact of the business problem(s), positions business value
Provides input to all global business units to address IT trends, requirements, gaps, or unmet needs
Translates outcome-based solutions into a functional solution design
Communicates how the solution value propositions addresses customer business needs
Tracks leading-edge and emerging technologies
Contributes to industry development for one or more domains
Actively gathers and applies competitive intelligence
Drives the Account Business Planning process
Participates in deep-dive discussions and partners with the account team
Produces in-depth comparative analysis of alternative approaches
Develops, configures, and right sizes an optimal workload solution
Leverages deep knowledge of partner products and services
Successfully transfers knowledge to external partners
Proactively builds the pipeline by identifying opportunities
Monitors the account pipeline and nurtures active deals
Uses pipeline insights to help prioritize activities
Actively participates in sales forecast meetings
Documents ongoing work throughout the sales cycle
Builds strong professional relationships with customer key executives
Proactively shares knowledge with peers and helps develop more junior team members
Requirements:
First-level university technical degree or equivalent technical qualifications
8–12 years of technical experience in IT with a focus on technical consulting and solution selling
5-8 years of selling experience with a major storage company (Dell/EMC, Pure, NetApp)
Deep hands-on technical expertise in pitching, demoing and architecting complex solutions
Demonstratable knowledge in virtualization, and at least 2 application stacks (MSSQL, Oracle, SAP etc.)
Working knowledge of hands-on with one of major public clouds (Amazon, Azure, Google)
Expert in selling complete data lifecycle management portfolio – block, file, backup, ransomware protection & others
Deep competitive knowledge of at least 1 major storage vendor
Demonstratable technical knowledge of storage industry and major trends
Self-starter and able to ramp quickly
Nice to have:
Advanced degree in technology
Knowledge-based as well as 1+ experienced-based relevant industry certifications
Enterprise architecture frameworks and project management methodologies and certifications
Certifications for public cloud knowledge
Deep expertise in at least one of the major verticals (FSI, manufacturing, Healthcare) and related solutions