Role & responsibilities
- Engage with enterprise customers to understand business and technical requirements.
- Conduct discovery calls and customer workshops.
- Work closely with Sales teams to identify opportunities and develop technical solutions.
- Design solution architectures around Databricks, Qlik, Data Engineering, Analytics and AI.
- Prepare and deliver technical presentations and product demonstrations.
- Develop POCs/POVs and support solution validation.
- Prepare responses for RFPs, RFIs and technical proposals.
- Translate customer business challenges into scalable data and analytics solutions.
- Communicate solution value and business outcomes to CXO and senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate with technical delivery teams to ensure proposed solutions are practical and scalable.
- Support the complete presales lifecycle from discovery through proposal, presentation and closure.
- Contribute to the growth and development of the Databricks presales practice in Western India.
Required Skills Presales
- 35 years of experience in Presales / Solution Consulting / Sales Engineering.
- Strong customer-facing and presentation skills.
- Experience conducting discovery workshops.
- Experience creating solution architectures and technical proposals.
- Experience with POCs/POVs, demos, RFPs and RFIs.
- Ability to work closely with Sales and Delivery teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Technology
Strong experience in Databricks OR Qlik, with knowledge of:
- Databricks Lakehouse
- Data Engineering
- Data Analytics
- Data Platforms
- Data Integration
- ETL/ELT
- BI and Analytics
- Cloud Data Platforms
- AI / ML concepts
- Modern Data Architecture
Qlik experience may include
- Qlik Sense
- Qlik Cloud
- QlikView
- Qlik Data Integration
- Qlik Replicate
- Qlik Compose
Databricks experience may include
- Databricks Lakehouse
- Delta Lake
- Databricks SQL
- Data Engineering
- Apache Spark
- Data Pipelines
- Unity Catalog
- Cloud-based data platforms
Candidate Profile The ideal candidate is:
- Hungry to win and result-oriented.
- Comfortable interacting with CXO and senior business stakeholders.
- Strong in customer discovery and solution positioning.
- Technically capable of discussing modern data architecture.
- Able to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Comfortable presenting complex technical concepts in a simple business-oriented manner.
- Equally comfortable speaking with business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Interested in building and shaping a growing Databricks presales practice.
Preferred Background Candidates from the following backgrounds can be considered:
- Databricks Presales
- Qlik Presales
- Data & Analytics Presales
- Data Solution Consulting
- BI Presales
- Data Platform Presales
- Cloud/Data Solution Consulting
- Solution Architecture with strong presales exposure
- Sales Engineering Data & Analytics