World Wide Technology
Consulting Systems Engineer / Presales Engineer
Permanent
Remote
For the 12th year in a row, World Wide Technology has been rated one of the best places to work by Fortune Global top 100 best companies list. We believe this is due to ensuring that our employees feel valued and understand that they are our greatest asset. WWT prides itself on having a continued development of strong workplace culture, creativity and innovation, workforce diversity & global cultural awareness.
As Consulting Systems Engineer you will bring together customer requirements and technology experience/knowledge to lead client engagements in both identifying and developing the best of breed solutions to address business problems across several clients.
Using the broad technology partnership portfolio WWT has the CSE will be a thought and technology leader with their clients and drive innovative ways to help clients realize value and address today’s business challenges.
Responsibilities:
* Continually expand personal knowledge of the validated Cloud reference architectures
* Translating key business requirements into Cloud solutions
* Design and propose next generation Cloud solutions that meet the needs and functional requirements of the customer.
* Integrating Cloud solutions into the network design, and implementation.
* Present complex technical concepts in a manner that can be easily understood by non-technical or semi-technical audiences.
* Act as a consultant to the customers, striving to gain a trusted advisor status through honest but humble interactions.
* Perform technology demonstrations utilizing the WWT Advanced Technology Center, Partner and Vendor Labs or customer provided equipment.
* Contribute to the WWT technology body of knowledge through the creation of written documentation, white papers, internal blogs, WWT communities or knowledge base articles.
* Join and be an active participant in one or more WWT Virtual Teams representing a technology of relevance to you and the region.
* Develops and fosters relationships with strategic original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and key partners who are local to your region.
* Support the account team through identification, development, and ongoing support of new opportunities.
* Join account teams in key customer meetings to represent WWT's solutions and capabilities.
* Take a leadership position in proposal responses within your domain of expertise.
* Works with clients and WWT Sales team to obtain technical priorities, challenges, and initiatives that can be translated into WWT opportunities.
* Ensure effective coordination and support between account teams and supporting post sale technical resources.
* Serve as the technical liaison to customers and internally to WWT
* Building strong relationships in the EMEA region with WWT’s key OEM partners
* Achieving and maintaining required technology certifications and competencies
* Providing Effective Engineering Support of Customer Initiatives
* Have a clear understanding of the WWT Value Propositions
Qualifications:
* Full understanding of the end-to-end sales process and skilled at moving qualified services opportunities from resolute qualification through to closure
* Experienced with taking on the Lead Engineering role on engagements working in collaboration with Sales Teams.
* Experience with the RFP / RFI / ITT process and participation in such processes.
* Cloud technology
* Experience partnering with media companies
* Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with multiple Cloud solutions and the ability to design and implement solutions.
* 5+ years of technical enterprise pre-sales experience with a focus on solution sales in to the Media industry
* Ability to create and present sales and technical training material for field enablement.
* Ability to identify potential opportunities and be accountable for creating strategies to pursue.
* Outstanding communication and organizational skills required.
Should you have the relevant skill set, we look forward to receiving your applications.
Equal opportunities:
World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.