Senior Systems Engineer, UDS Data Management - East

Senior Systems Engineer, Data Management

Our field sales professionals rely on proactive technical support during the sales process - and our expert Systems Engineering team always steps up to the mark. We lead the development and implementation of complex and specialized products, applications, services and solutions. From delivering sales presentations and product demonstrations, to developing detailed installation or system integration plans, we ensure customers get the innovative, relevant, interoperable solutions they need.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior Systems Engineer on our Systems Engineering Team in the East Region of the US.

What you'll achieve
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will provide pre-sales technical support to our field sales teams, helping to define the overall Dell Technologies solution for our customers using the full range of company products and services.

You will:
Build and lead relationships for highly sophisticated customer accounts
Conduct customer needs analysis and anticipate requirements beyond existing solution's scope
Prepare detailed product specifications to enable the sale of our products and solutions, and deliver impact presentations at customer facilities
Verify operability of sophisticated product and service configurations within the customer's environment
Perform advanced systems integration and provide technical expertise to design and implement the solution

Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here's what we are looking for with this role:

Technical Skills

Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud data platform (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Cloudera, Synapse, or similar).

Strong understanding of data warehousing, data lakes/lakehouse, and ETL/ELT concepts (staging, modeling, performance tuning, cost/perf tradeoffs).

Data engineering and integration including unstructured data processing (PDFs, logs, images, text) and transformation into structured/vectorized formats

Strong SQL skills for analytical queries, performance tuning, and data modeling (star/snowflake schemas, dimensional modeling, partitioning, clustering).

Unstructured data & AI/RAG: Understanding of vector databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, Milvus, pgvector), embedding models, and RAG architectures. Familiarity with document processing pipelines, chunking strategies, and semantic search patterns.

Familiarity with data pipeline and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Spark, Kafka, cloud-native ETL tools) and batch vs. streaming patterns.

Understanding of data governance (catalog, lineage, security, RBAC, masking, compliance requirements like GDPR/CCPA).

Analytics, BI, and data science

Ability to design and explain analytics solutions end-to-end: from raw data to dashboards and predictive models.

Working knowledge of BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Qlik) and how to connect, model, and optimize for self-service analytics.

Familiarity with data science and ML workflows (feature engineering, experimentation, model training/deployment, RAG pipeline development, prompt engineering) and tools/languages such as Python, Spark, notebooks, and ML frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, MLflow, TensorFlow/PyTorch, LangChain, LlamaIndex at a conceptual level).

Consulting Skills

Skilled at asking the right questions to uncover technical requirements, constraints, and business drivers.

Can translate ambiguous business problems into clear data and analytics use cases.

Storytelling & communication

Excellent at translating complex technical topics into clear, business-oriented narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Comfortable presenting to large groups and senior stakeholders (CIO/CDO, Heads of Data/Analytics).

Demo & POC excellence

Able to build and deliver compelling demonstrations that tell a story around customer data and use cases, not just features.

Can structure and run POCs with clear success criteria, timelines, and executive readouts to accelerate technical win.

Competitive positioning

Understands the broader data & AI ecosystem and can articulate differentiation versus other data warehouses, data lake/lakehouse platforms, and analytics tools.

5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Data Engineer, Analytics Consultant, or Data Scientist with strong commercial exposure.

Proven experience architecting and delivering data management, analytics, or data science solutions in one or more of the following areas:

Cloud data warehouse or lakehouse migrations

Enterprise BI modernization/self-service analytics

GenAI and RAG implementations for enterprise knowledge management, intelligent document processing, or customer-facing AI applications

Real-time or streaming analytics

Advanced analytics / data science enablement

Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and one or more leading data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudera, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse).

Compensation
Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The Total Target Compensation (TTC) range for this position is $204,850 - $265,100, which includes base salary and potential commissions.

Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies
Your life. Your health. Supported by your benefits. You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member - right now at MyWellatDell.com

Who we are

We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That's why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you're looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we're looking for you.

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