Senior Sales Engineer

April 1

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Actian is a company that offers data management and analytics platforms, enabling businesses to make confident, data-driven decisions. Their products include a cloud-native SaaS solution and a comprehensive data platform with capabilities in data management, integration, quality, analytics, and app modernization. Actian's technology supports flexible deployment options across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Their database solutions include NoSQL, RDBMS, and other database management systems ideal for diverse applications. Actian collaborates with major cloud platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, providing solutions across various industries such as financial services, healthcare, and retail. The company aims to empower organizations by simplifying how data is connected, managed, and analyzed, offering reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions.

Data Management • Information Management • Database • Data Integration • Cloud Data Warehouse

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1980

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• About Us • Our Vision is to be the Most Trusted, Flexible and Easy to Use Hybrid Cloud Data Platform. Actian is transforming industries by empowering companies to accelerate application modernization and simplify the Cloud journey. Our customers use the Actian Data Platform to unify their siloed data, explore and securely exchange data to run a variety of analytic workloads that provide real time business insights at a fraction of the cost. We have 24 of the Fortune 100 companies using Actian technology in some of the most mission critical applications that impact your daily life. • Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity as we shape this market. • About the Role • We are looking for a Sr. Sales Engineer with a proven track record selling integration, analytics, data management solutions. As a key technical partner to the Sales team, you will leverage your expertise in analytical databases, BI/Analytics, and integration to support software deals. In this role, you will provide pre-sales guidance and act as the primary technical point of contact, helping convert prospects into customers. A significant portion of the Sales Engineer role includes scoping, defining, and providing demonstrations and executing Proof-of-Concepts. This includes working with the customers and partners to gain an understanding of their business and its needs, mapping our offerings to those needs, and providing competitive analysis that assists with the successful positioning of our offerings. • The ideal candidate will have a broad range of skills and experience ranging from data architecture to ETL, security, performance analysis, and analytics. They will have the insight to make the connection between a customer’s specific business problems and Actian’s solution, the customer-facing skills to communicate that connection and vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences, and the technical skills to be able to provide consultative assistance on architecture and trusted technical advisor. • This person also shares our vision about reinventing the data platform and thrives in the dynamic environment. That means having the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get done what needs to be done to make Actian and our customers successful. It means keeping up to date on the ever-evolving technologies for data and analytics in order to be an authoritative resource for Actian and our customers. And it means working collaboratively with a broad variety of people both inside and outside the company.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5-10 years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role • Bachelor’s, or higher, in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience • Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos • Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools • Strong skills in integration, databases, data warehouses, and data processing • Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics • Experience and track record of success selling data and/or analytics software to enterprise customers; includes proven skills identifying key stakeholders, winning value propositions, and compelling events • Extensive knowledge of and experience with relational and large-scale analytics database technology (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Netezza, Teradata, etc.) • Software development experience with C/C++ or Scripting experience with Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash. • Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase) • Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. PowerBI, Looker, Tableau, etc.) • Experience with connectivity technology, ODBC, Spark, JSON, etc. • Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) • Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom and packaged tools • Experience using GCP, AWS and/or Azure Services • Experience supporting enterprise SaaS software

🏖️ Benefits

• We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.