Job Title Presales Technical Consultant – Enterprise Software Germany - #2174626

Presales Technical Consultant – Enterprise Software Germany

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  Position:
  
  Full Time
  
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  Salary:
  
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  Location:
  
  Deutschland
  
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  Hamburg, Bonn, Frankfurt, Stuttgart flexible
  
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  Job ID:
  
  26774
  
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  Applications:
  
  0
  

Job

Description

Our client is looking for a Presales Technical Consultant to lead the technical relationships and direction in an assigned territory or vertical industry with prospects, established clients, business partners, and application ecosystem partners. This job will require travel to customer sites inside Germany, travel time is estimated between 40% – 50% of job requirements

Responsibilities:



Presentations & white-boarding



Interactive demonstrations




Working with the Engineering team to help build out a competitive roadmap



Supporting the sales team to bring the results

Required Skills & Experience:



Proven team Player with at least 3 years of proven technical pre-sales experience in the territory – supporting a quota carrying team



Ability to move from the boardroom to the data center and back to the company team with ease and speak with executives and individual contributors alike



Be a self-starter and partner closely with the client’s enterprise account manager



Ability to work in autonomy, to do scouting of new opportunities and to manage a project alone



Ability to provide information about competitive products and clearly differentiate the advantages and disadvantages of the offerings based on real-world experience



Demonstrable listening and communication skills (oral, presentation, and written)



Ability to build strong Relationship also at high level with CIO/CTO/Architecture Manager/Innovation Manager



Creation and delivery of architecture proposals, as well as the development and delivery of Solution Briefs



Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to POCs, RFPs, RFQs and RFIs



Able to relate well to both the client’s and business partner’s technical staff



Experience using TCO analysis tools to financially justify proposals



Experience working with Business Partners to fulfill solutions and services



Creativity and problem solving approach



Determination and commitment to the results

Preferred Qualifications:



Deep technical knowledge and real-world usage of application and operating system environments and their integration touch points within the enterprise storage industry including one or more of the following:



– Microsoft Application Ecosystem, including SharePoint and Exchange



– Databases including Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server



– Virtualization Technologies including VMware, HyperV, AIX, OpenStack, and XEN



– Storage protocols, including: Block protocols (Fiber Channel and iSCSI), NAS Technologies, (NFS/CIFS (SMB), Object Storage (REST/HTTP), CKD, and FICON


– Data Protection and Business Continuity solutions, including software and infrastructure platforms, such as Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL)



– EMC, HDS, NetApp, HP, IBM and other enterprise storage products



– Major Operating Systems including Windows, Linux, AIX, and IBM Mainframe