Senior Client Solutions Engineer
About the role
Senior Client Solutions Engineer assists AHEAD Client Directors through formal technical presentations and technical design assistance of AHEAD’s solution and service offerings to existing and prospective clients. Owns all technical aspects of a sales campaign and hand off to the consulting and services team; maintains strong relationships with clients. Acts as a thought leader within Engineering, responsible for designing, architecting, and consulting for AHEAD clients across Enterprise Cloud Framework including Cloud Management and Operations, Security, Datacenter Infrastructure and Public Cloud.
Responsibilities
- Possess deep data center expertise (multiple layers of the stack).
- Present at Technical Briefings and Lab Demonstrations with clients and partners to showcase AHEAD's value.
- Considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or many technologies for the team to leverage.
- Recognized by the partner community to own technical sales campaigns without their support.
- Qualify and position consulting engagements and services.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to team resources in order to enhance their solution knowledge, technical acumen, and pre-sales skill sets.
- Qualify sales opportunities in terms of client technical requirements, decision making process and funding and decides if we should move forward with the campaign.
- Understand and articulate AHEAD's Enterprise Cloud Framework.
- Prioritize opportunities and efforts assigned to the geography based on maximizing total impact on team productivity and profit.
- Drive engagement conversions to additional services / solutions.
- Provide feedback to improve internal efficiencies.
- Work with Practice Directors to provide input and suggestions for new solutions and offerings.
- Present regularly at AHEAD events, user groups, conferences, and forums.
- Lead Solution Verification / BOM Review process for the geography.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- 4+ years Pre Sales and Data Center experience is required
- Professional communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Experience working as a technical lead in a pre-sales sales campaign
- Extensive knowledge of one or more of the following data center solutions: storage, networking, compute, virtualization, data center management / automation, and security
- Ability to work under critical conditions and influence others to achieve results
- Strong interpersonal skills with excellent presentation skills
- Must be independent, self motivated, a self starter and possess a good working attitude
- Able to work well within a team and partner environment
- Customer focused and results driven
Skills
Benefits
- USA Employment Benefits include: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits for additional details.
About AHEAD
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AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations.
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