Solutions Architect (Pre Sales Engineer) - EMEA

DataCore Software; Wales; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales Engineer)

As a sales team member, the Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales Engineer) will be a dynamic and hardworking technical professional with experience in successfully selling disruptive solutions to the Media & Entertainment market. This individual must maintain high-performance levels and attention to detail through direct actions that drive revenue in alignment with Perifery‘s Go-to-Market strategy. This role is 100% focused on acquisition and building on our existing global footprint. The successful candidate will become part of a small but highly efficient new business team, providing technical support during the sales process, leveraging their technical skills and customer experience to deliver results. You will be a go-getter with a ‘can do‘ attitude and bundles of energy and motivation that is capable of supporting the team effort but also happy to work autonomously. Experience in networking and building relationships on a technical level is critical along with having the necessary media industry experience to understand challenges and solve problems.

Duties:

1. To be capable of articulating Perifery’s value proposition and technical benefits to prospects across the territory
2. To manage and support all aspects of technical product evaluations at prospect sites
3. To conduct meetings and run technical presentations / demonstrations alongside sales
4. To build out detailed deployment and workflow proposals based on customer requirements
5. To act as a significant contributor and reviewer of RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs and own the technical content
6. To partner with the Engineering team on installations, configuration and testing of database applications as well as test and performance tools and regular assessment of the quality of our services
7. To act as a subject matter expert across the company
8. To work closely with other Solution Architects to feedback product enhancements / feature requests and to help drive the product roadmap from the commercial side
9. To create customer case studies, provide input to technical white papers and be present on technical webinars
10. To represent Perifery at conferences, tradeshows, and other industry events
11. Travel to meet with partners and prospects in the EMEA region
12. To collaborate directly with end users, resellers and technical partners to accurately define workflows that solve M&E customer pain points

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

1. An in-depth technical understanding of the media and entertainment industry
2. A good knowledge of storage, especially NAS, SAN, and object storage in media workflows
3. Technical knowledge of public cloud storage services and their advantages and disadvantages
4. Work experience or knowledge of storage as a service / private cloud deployments (especially S3) required
5. Hands-on experience with Linux system administration
6. Demonstrated success driving business with enterprise customers including the ability to navigate complex organizational structures
7. Setting up and running offline tradeshow demos using virtual machines
8. Understanding of Project Management frameworks such as Scrum and associated tools
9. Knowledge of M&E file-based workflows (Avid, Adobe, Telestream, Signiant, etc.)
10. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of technical and non-technical people
11. Sales focused with experience working towards targets and KPI’s
12. Ability to network and build relationships

Education/Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (Computer Science degree or equivalent experience)
2. 6-10 years of successful M&E industry related experience
3. 2-4 years of experience selling software and/or storage solutions
4. 2-4 years experience in a Pre-Sales Engineer / Technical Sales role
5. Proven ability to work on cross-functional teams
6. Experience with Media & entertainment workflows
7. Ability to communicate the difference between public cloud services, on-premise object storage, and hybrid cloud workflows
8. Experience collaborating with partner teams to establish media and asset manager workflows
9. Familiarity with the use of metadata in asset manager workflows
10. Operating environments: Linux, Windows, Mac
11. Additional languages skills preferred (French, Spanish, or German)
12. Experience working towards KPI’s and targets
13. Travel up to 25%

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

DataCore Software is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.