Solutions Architect - Commercial Accounts, West
Company Description
This position is with our client, who is US based Software firm that connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. It is rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.
Job summary
Our Client is looking for an experienced sales engineer to
join us as a Senior Account Solutions Architect in Mumbai, India. In this role,
you will provide the first major experience our customers have with the firm
while creating possibilities, solving problems, and establishing working
relationships. You'll discover and analyze our customers' business and
technical needs and collaborate with the Sales and Technical Delivery teams to
help them invest wisely in the best solutions to give their systems maximum
flexibility, allowing them to run faster and more efficiently. You'll need to
have a balance of serious technical expertise, passion for open source, a
thorough understanding of business processes, and of the ability to identify
and solve issues at the enterprise level. As a Senior Account Solutions
Architect, you'll also need to have great communication and people skills.
Primary job
responsibilities
Develop strategic relationships with our customers to become
a trusted adviser for client’s offerings and solutions
Provide presales technical support to client’s Commercial
Sales team
Support evaluations of our offerings and technical proofs of
concepts
Respond to customer and partner inquiries, including
requests for proposals (RFPs) and requests for information (RFIs)
Required skills
7+ years of experience in the IT industry
5+ years of experience working as a presales engineer,
consultant, IT architect, or equivalent supporting partners and enterprises
5+ years of experience with solutions design or
implementation from Large Unix to Linux, HPC, complex application systems,
cloud, multi-datacenter, and modernizing application environments, as well as
multi-product integration
Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical
audiences
Familiarity with enterprise solutions and architectures,
e.g., cloud, big data, virtualization, storage, middleware, clustering, or high
availability
Ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate
with others to provide the best solutions
Willingness to travel up to 50%
Record of working with partners, distributors, consultants,
and service partners to create solutions propositions around Red Hat's
solutions
Expertise in one of the offerings from the Red Hat portfolio
The following are considered a plus:
Ability to handle multiple priorities and manage multiple
large transactions between multiple organizations
Experience working as an enterprise architect and
strategizing with C-Level users regarding technologies and roadmaps
VMware Certified Professional (VCP), or Information
Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certifications
Our Client provides an equal opportunity workplace and an
affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without
regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, uniformed services,
genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital
status, or any other basis prohibited by law.