Presales Solution Architect (Data & AI Solutions)

SAS; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

SAS in Mumbai invites a Presales Solution Architect to translate customer needs into data and AI solutions. You will create demos, prototypes, and workshop-based storytelling that illustrates practical value.

You’ll collaborate with sales, product, and delivery teams to design architectures, tailor proposals, and respond to RFPs. Curiosity, hands-on approach, and ability to learn quickly are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Willingness to learn SAS products and capabilities.
• Strong customer-facing communication and storytelling skills.
• Experience in delivering demos, prototypes, and solution stories.

Responsibilities

• Meet customers to understand priorities and challenges.
• Design credible solution concepts and architecture diagrams.
• Build demos, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts.
• Present solutions to business and technical audiences.

Skills

Presales

Solution Architecture

Data & AI

Cloud

APIs

Prototyping

Tools

Python

SQL

APIs

Notebooks

BI tools

Cloud platforms

Low-code tools

Workflow tools

AI tools

Job description

Presales Solution Architect (Data & AI Solutions)

We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you'll find it here. We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.

Help Organizations Turn Ideas Into Impact

We are looking for a Presales Solution Architect who enjoys technology, likes building things, and wants to help organizations use data, AI, analytics, and decisioning to solve real business challenges.

This is a customer-facing, demo-driven role for someone who enjoys exploring new technologies, building fast, and showing customers what is possible.

Prior SAS experience is not required. We are looking for someone with curiosity, hands-on ability, strong solution instincts, and the confidence to learn new platforms quickly.

Why This Role Matters

Organizations across industries are working to improve services, make better decisions, reduce risk, improve compliance, and use data more effectively.

In this role, you will help organizations explore practical ways to use data, AI, analytics, automation, and SAS solutions across areas such as citizen services, fraud detection, compliance, case management, public safety, healthcare, transport, finance, and policy analytics.

You will not just talk about technology. You will help bring ideas to life through demos, prototypes, workshops, and solution stories that customers can see and understand.

What You’ll Do:

Discover

• Meet customers to understand their mission, priorities, challenges, and operating environment.


• Identify where data, AI, analytics, automation, and decisioning can create practical business value.

Design

• Turn customer needs into simple solution concepts, demo stories, architecture diagrams, proposal content, and RFP responses.


• Work with sales, product, delivery, partner, and SAS specialists to shape credible and useful solutions.

Build

• Build and customise demos, prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and solution walkthroughs.


• Explore new tools, APIs, datasets, cloud services, AI capabilities, and integration patterns.


• Move quickly from idea to prototype, making things work fast enough to support customer conversations and workshops.

Showcase

• Present solutions clearly to business, technical, leadership, and procurement audiences.


• Show how the solution works, what problem it solves, and why it matters.


• Help customers understand the value of better decisions, improved services, risk reduction, compliance, transparency, and operational efficiency.

You’ll Enjoy This Role If

• You like turning ideas into working demos.


• You enjoy testing new tools, APIs, AI capabilities, datasets, and platforms.


• You like being in front of customers and showing them what is possible.


• You are the kind of person who sees a problem and starts thinking, “I can probably build something to show this.”


• You enjoy the mix of technology, storytelling, business impact, and problem-solving.

What We’re Looking For

• We are looking for someone who is curious, hands-on, practical, and customer-focused.


• You should enjoy learning new technologies, building quick working examples, making things work, and explaining technical ideas in simple language.


• You do not need to be a SAS expert. We will support you with SAS product knowledge. What matters more is your ability to learn fast, think clearly, build creatively, and showcase solutions in a way that customers understand.

Helpful Experience

Experience in any of these areas would be helpful:

• Presales, solution consulting, solution architecture, technical consulting, systems integration, or industry technology consulting


• Data, analytics, AI, BI, cloud, automation, case management, workflow, or enterprise software


• Building demos, prototypes, dashboards, workflows, proof-of-concepts, or solution showcases


• Tools such as Python, SQL, APIs, notebooks, BI tools, cloud platforms, low-code tools, workflow tools, or AI tools


• Customer meetings, workshops, proposals, RFPs, tenders, or solution presentations


• SAS experience is useful but not required.

What Success Looks Like

• You help customers see what is possible.


• You can turn a customer challenge into a clear, practical solution idea.


• You can quickly build or customise a demo that makes the idea real.


• You can explain technology clearly to both business and technical audiences.


• You make sales conversations more credible, practical, and exciting.


• You help move opportunities from interest to action.

You are welcome here.

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.