Job Information
The Senior Sales Engineer collaborates with Sales Teams to produce technical, architectural, and engineering deliverables that lead to uncovering opportunities and booking profitable sales.
Responsibilities
The Senior Sales Engineer is able to communicate at a detailed level about all the technologies available within ScaleMatrix as well as within the competitive industry. Deliverables include needs analysis, requirements, architecture diagrams, high-level designs, detail specifications, technical presentations, RFP responses, and supplemental account commentary in the form of meeting minutes, trip reports, and account planning recommendations. This role is highly influential in leading customer to make purchasing decisions based upon sound, technical analysis. Ability to communicate effectively with the executive management level and others, within the SMB to Enterprise space to gain alignment and commitment is required. Participates in meeting preparation and presentations and is responsible for customer solution development. Must have working knowledge in all of the following: Process Management and Quality Control, Cloud/Managed Hosting Technology, Data Center/IT Strategies, Managed Network Services, Access methods – Ethernet (EoC, EoS, EoF), DS1, DS3, OCn, Layers 1, 2, 3, 4 OSI model Working knowledge of TCP/IP Model, Standard network topologies, Routing & Switching protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, ISIS, CEF, First hop redundancy and load balancing using protocols like HSRP, VRRP, Security threats practices and typologies, VOIP, VLANs, and LAN, MPLS and associated CQoS practices, and SIP and associated codecs.
Qualifications
- • Minimum of 6 years of related technical experience; at least 2 in a Sales Engineering/Support Role.
- • Demonstrated knowledge of IT Services (such as managed security, cloud computing, virtualization, asset tracking, and Hosted IP), networking/telecommunications and/or voice/data communications technology.
- • Experience working in a solutions sales organization with an advanced understanding of sales cycles and solutions selling process; formal training in strategic value selling a plus or utilizing concepts of Winning Account Strategies.
- • Experience with Installations, Migrations, Systems Integration, and Operations.
- • Certification VMware’s VSP & VTSP preferred. CISA or Security related certification a plus. Comp TIA Network+, SSCP, GSEC, CCSP. CISSP a strong plus.
Education / Competencies
- • Effective Solutions Sales Capabilities: Demonstrates advanced solution selling abilities and effective, pro-active customer communications including proposal development, delivery, and RFP responses.
- • Advanced written and verbal communication skills. Must have the ability to independently develop relationships and communicate with high level internal and external technical staff.
- • Proven Presentation Skills: Able to design and present highly technical concepts and specifics solutions to internal and external audiences of varying technical capabilities in a clear, concise and easily understood manner.
- • Advanced problem solving skills and ability to methodically understand and resolve complex issues.
- • Demonstrated ability to focus ambiguous customer needs into specific, deliverable requirements. Ability to extract hidden or unrealized customer requirements and gain consensus with the prospect.
- • Ability to influence several cross-functional departments to gain alignment and to drive design solutions with the appropriate organizations.
- • Able to quickly and accurately assess current operations, identify design flaws, and build consensus on both a proposed solution and plan of action.
- • Has experience estimating work effort for complex technical solution design and delivery. Track record of on-time, on-budget delivery. Can plan resources, time, and costs; explain variances.
- • Effectively manages change at all stages of the sale, delivery, and in operations.
- • Able to independently assess performance and service level agreements against both business needs and expected results.
- • Creates technology white paper at least two times per year on ScaleMatrix technology to be shared both within Sales Engineering and with clients and prospects.
- • Provide Sales training specific to technologies on a quarterly basis.
- • Educational Level: Bachelor’s Degree, equivalent work, or related military experience