Solution Engineering IC2

Overview

As a Solution Engineer, you will develop an understanding of current customer context and anticipate next steps. You will drive technical wins or portions of technical wins with support from peers. You will also engage in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process. You will build awareness of partner technical capacity through observation and review customer interactions and raise competitive information to the account teams to contribute to development and landing of our compete strategies. You may also contribute to the product strategy by soliciting and communicating customer feedback.

Responsibilities

Build Strategy

• Reviews customer interactions and raises competitive information to account teams to contribute to development and landing of compete strategies.

• Contributes to product strategy by soliciting and communicating customer feedback.

Education

• Promotes readiness to internal teams.

• Consumes and leverages readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues.

Leverage Partner Ecosystem

• Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to th facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process

• Builds awareness of partner technical capacity through observation.

Scale Customer Engagements

• Develops understanding of current customer context and anticipates next steps. Uses product expertise to build credibility with customers and act as a trusted advisor to assess and consult on their security needs.

• Engages other resources, leveraging basic resource knowledge, for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set.

Solution Design and Proof

• Presents reference architectures to partners or customers for key parts of their technology sets.

• Builds own awareness of digital transformation sales methodologies.

Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.

1+ year(s) experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.

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Solution Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $70,500 - $139,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $95,000 - $153,200 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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