Sales Engineer

Alteryx; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel up to 40%

Job summary

Alteryx is seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to act as a trusted technical advisor, partnering with customers and account teams to solve analytics challenges with AI, automation, and cloud data platforms.

You will bridge business and technical requirements, lead technical discovery, deliver tailored product demonstrations, and support proof-of-value engagements across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. Travel up to 40% is expected.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of pre-sales, sales engineering, solution consulting, or related enterprise software experience.
• Experience across analytics, ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, AI/ML workflows, automation, or enterprise data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives on qualified opportunities, focusing on new logo acquisition and analytics modernization.
• Lead technical discovery with stakeholders to understand objectives, architecture, data landscape, and success criteria.
• Design and deliver demos, workshops, and POVs/POCs illustrating Alteryx value across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem deployments.
• Assist customers in evaluating data preparation, automation, and AI‑driven analytics solutions.
• Address architecture, connectivity, governance, security, and deployment questions during engagements.
• Support proposals, RFP responses, and opportunity strategies for complex deals.
• Identify expansion opportunities within existing customers and drive broader platform adoption.
• Stay current on products, competitive offerings, and market trends in AI and cloud data platforms.
• Share best practices with the SE org and mentor junior teammates.

Skills

Data analytics

Sales engineering

Cloud data platforms

AI/ML workflows

Stakeholder engagement

Presentation skills

SQL

Python

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Microsoft Fabric

SQL

Python

Job description

Meet the Moment with Alteryx

We're living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how work gets done. Data, automation, and AI are quickly becoming the center of every business decision - and Alteryx is leading the transformation.

You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business. No matter your role, the work you do will help organizations move faster, see more clearly, and tackle questions that used to feel impossible.

If you're ready to meet the moment with innovation, curiosity, and excellence, there's a place for you here.

Why Join Us?

At Alteryx, you'll help some of the world's most data-driven organizations modernize their analytics with AI, automation, and cloud data platforms. This is an opportunity to work at the center of analytics transformation, helping customers connect data, scale decision-making, and unlock value from modern cloud and AI-driven architectures.

Position Overview

The Senior Sales Engineer at Alteryx is a trusted technical advisor who partners with customers and internal account teams to solve complex analytics challenges with AI, automation, and cloud data platforms. In this role, you will bridge customer business and technical requirements with Alteryx capabilities across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

Working closely with the go-to-market team, the Senior Sales Engineer leads technical discovery, delivers tailored product demonstrations, and supports proof-of-value and proof-of-concept engagements for qualified opportunities. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in data analytics, cloud data platforms, modern data architectures, and AI-enabled workflows, and is comfortable operating independently on complex opportunities while collaborating across sales, partners, product, and customer teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives and the wider go-to-market team on qualified opportunities, with a primary focus on new logo acquisition, aligning Alteryx solutions to customer priorities around analytics modernization, AI adoption, automation, and cloud data platforms.
• Lead technical discovery with business and technicalstakeholders to understand customer objectives, currentarchitecture, data landscape, and success criteria.
• Design and deliver compelling demos, workshops, andPOVs/POCs that clearly demonstrate the value of Alteryx incustomer environments across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments.
• Help customers evaluate solution approaches for datapreparation, analytics automation, AI-driven workflows, andintegration with cloud data platforms.
• Address technical questions and objections related toarchitecture, connectivity, governance, security, scalability,and deployment patterns.
• Support technical validation throughout the sales cycle,including proposals, RFP responses, and opportunity strategyfor complex deals.
• While the primary emphasis is on new logo acquisition,support expansion opportunities within existing customersby identifying additional use cases, mapping customer painpoints to Alteryx capabilities, and helping account teamsdrive broader platform adoption where appropriate.
• Stay current on Alteryx products, competitive offerings, andmarket trends in AI, cloud data platforms, and modernanalytics architectures.
• Share field feedback, reusable assets, and best practices withthe SE organization, and provide informal guidance to lessexperienced team members where appropriate.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of pre-sales, sales engineering, solution consulting,or related experience in enterprise software, with strongexperience in data analytics, business intelligence, dataengineering, data science, or automation.
• Experience across two or more relevant domains such asanalytics, ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, AI/ML workflows,automation, or enterprise data architecture.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure,or GCP, and exposure to cloud data platforms such asSnowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or MicrosoftFabric. Relevant certifications are a plus, although not arequirement.
• Strong understanding of analytics workflows, dataintegration, data governance, automation, and howmodern analytics solutions fit into governed enterpriseenvironments.
• Understanding of on-premises and cloud data sourcesconnectivity, including APIs, ODBC/JDBC, and identity-based integrations such as OAuth and SSO.
• Ability to engage effectively with technical decision makers, analysts, data engineers, architects, IT stakeholders, and business leaders.
• Strong presentation, demo, and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and credibly.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, R, Apache Spark, or similar technologies is a plus.
• Experience with Alteryx or similar analytics platforms is highly desirable.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and remain closely aligned to the sales process.
• Travel up to 40%, or as required.

FP-LI

Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we're invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant's capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.