Job description
What will you do
- Develop strategic relationships with our customers to become a trusted adviser for Red Hat's offerings and solutions
- Demonstrate ownership of the technical relationships and technical sales cycle within a set of named accounts in your territory
- Ensure revenue and new business quotas / targets and service objectives are met while maintaining a high level of satisfaction among prospective and existing customer
- Provide presales technical support to our Enterprise Sales team
- Support evaluations of our offerings and technical proofs of concepts
- Respond to customer and partner inquiries, including requests for proposal (RFPs) and requests for information (RFIs)
- Provides pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex solutions.
- Use in-depth domain & product knowledge to provide technical expertise to customers or partners through sales presentations, product demonstrations, workshop, evaluations and Proof of Concept / Technology (POCs / POTs)
- Assess potential application of company products to meet customer needs and prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer solutions.
- Create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products / applications / solutions.
- Provide consultation to prospective users / customers / partners on product capability assessment and validation
What will you bring
10+ years of experience in the IT industry5+ years of experience working as a presales engineer, consultant, IT architect, or equivalent supporting partners and enterprises5+ years experience working in BFSI industry5+ years of experience with solutions design or implementation complex application systems, cloud, multi-datacenter, and modernizing application environments, as well as multi-product integrationExperience in Application Modernization, Digital Transformation and understanding of modern methodologies like Kubernetes, Containers & Microservices Architecture, agile development, and DevSec Ops and associated capabilities like automation, orchestration, and configuration managementAbility to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiencesFamiliarity with enterprise solutions and architectures, including cloud, big data, virtualization, storage, middleware, clustering, and high availabilityExcellent presentation skills; ability to present to small and large groups of mixed business, technical, management, and leadership audiencesRecord of developing relationships at engineering, commercial, and executive levels throughout large enterprise IT organizationsUnderstanding of complex enterprise solutions and architecturesAbility to work well in a team environment and collaborate with others to provide the best solutionsKnowledge of sophisticated sales motionsWillingness to travel up to 50% of the timeRecord of working with partners, distributors, consultants, and service partners to create solutions propositions around Red Hat's solutionsExpertise in one or more offerings from the Red Hat portfolio like OpenShift, Ansible, RHEL, JBOSS, Application Services / MiddlewareThe following are considered a plus
Ability to handle multiple priorities and manage multiple large transactions between multiple organizationsExperience working as an enterprise architect and strategizing with C-level users regarding technologies and roadmapsRed Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), VMware Certified Professional (VCP), or Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certificationsSkills Required
Sales, BFSI Sales, Red Hat, Itil