Senior Cloud Resilience Architect

Commvault; Fort Lauderdale (FL, SC); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESPP

Presidents Club

MEDDIC training

Career pathing

Job summary

Commvault in Fort Lauderdale, FL is seeking a Senior Cloud Resilience Architect to provide pre‑sales technical leadership. You will translate customer needs into technical requirements, build business cases, and drive complex opportunities with partners and account teams.

The role requires 5+ years in cloud/software/storage with pre‑sales experience, strong communication, and the ability to travel up to 50%. Salary ranges are publicly posted and reflect market breadth for this senior role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud, software or storage industries and pre-sales systems engineering.
• Proven experience selling and conducting proofs of concept (POC).
• Strong ability to build business cases and TBM/TCO modeling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Formulate territory plans and account strategies with the account team.
• Build relationships with partners and internal teams across regions.
• Qualify customer issues and translate them into technical requirements.
• Develop and present business cases to sponsors (C-level and above).
• Demonstrate Commvault products via demos, pilots, and PoCs.
• Support channel partners with technical enablement and reviews.

Skills

5+ years cloud/storage industry

Pre-sales systems engineering

POC & data management

Excellent communication skills

Sales methodology knowledge

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Salesforce.com

POC tooling

Job description

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America; Georgia, United States of America; North Carolina, United States of America; South Carolina, United States of America

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Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose‑built recovery solutions span cloud‑native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

The Senior Cloud Resilience Architect is a pre‑sales support role primarily focused on providing technical sales support to Commvault’s partners and channel. The role supports partner‑focused sales teams deploying their skills to influence and drive through the sales cycle. The position requires a strong technical contributor who understands how their decisions impact and influence customer value while at time driving revenue for Commvault. The Senior Cloud Resilience Architect is seen as a trusted advisor at all levels within an account (C‑Suite, technical stakeholders, etc.). as well as, be a team leader, mentor, teach, and contribute to overall success of Commvault. The Senior Cloud Resilience Architect drives or supports complex sales opportunities by translating business requirements into solution technical requirements; coordinating technical expertise; sizing, scoping, defining delivery and deployment approach, timeline, and required resources; coordinating demonstrations and proof‑of‑concept; and supporting internal deal acceptance.

What you’ll do…

• Work as part of the account team to formulate and produce territory plans, account strategies, and sales plans including engaging specialist resources for accounts determined by the Sales and Sr. Sales Engineering Manager. The Senior Cloud Resilience Architect will as well develop new opportunities within the assigned territory.
• Anticipate technology trends and successfully build strong relationships with partners and internal departments (sales, support, business units, product management, marketing, development), as appropriate, to ensure success during sales campaigns and/or to ensure the customer experience is extremely positive.
• Embrace calling on senior level IT leadership often without account executive present at the same time and engage with the customer to qualify and understand key technical, financial, operational, and business issues that can be addressed with any one or all of Commvault products.
• Proactive in building relationships with technical decision makers within end‑user accounts and driving detailed, executable Technical Account Plans for all focus targets and current customers utilizing Commvault Target Account Selling methodology for both open opportunities and ongoing customer satisfaction.
• Distill the pre‑sales discovery into a concise message, outlining the salient technical, business, operational, and financial inefficiencies/challenges that Commvault addresses with its products.
• Collaborate with the creation and presentation of a business case to any and all business sponsors (i.e., C‑level executives, technical partners, etc.) in support of the Commvault solution.
• Propose and professionally demonstrate Commvault products through the use of presentations, existing customer solutions, white board, demo’s, pilots, "proof‑of‑concepts", etc.
• Actively participate in all Sales and regional meetings, QBRs, adding value and technical leadership on all topics (field marketing, qualifying, etc.).
• Provide technical expertise and enablement support for the channel and alliance partners as needed.
• Continuously develop and maintain technical and market expertise through training, certifications, conferences, etc.
• Keep senior management and relevant internal groups informed of key issues and changes which may impact expected business results through business reviews and Salesforce.com documentation.
• Provide feedback on potential product or process improvements to appropriate internal groups and participate where necessary in formulating innovative solutions.

Who you are…

• 5+ years in the cloud, software, or storage industry; 3+ years of experience serving in a pre‑sales systems engineer role.
• Provides strong competitive knowledge of e.g. Symantec NBU, EMC Networker, EMC Avamar, IBM TSM, VEEAM, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Commvault, etc.
• Proven strong experience selling, conducting Proof of Concept (POC), architecting data management solutions (backup and recovery, data migration, replication, compliance, SRM, etc.).
• Ability to work in a rapid growth environment where priorities, roles and responsibilities are continuously updated to meet market and customer demands.
• Experienced in participating in and building teams of specialists to support customers and sales cycles to successful outcomes.
• Basic knowledge with common Software licensing practices (cloud, perpetual, term, maintenance)
• Specialized knowledge/skills and demonstrated proficiency with at least one major open systems operating system, hypervisor or cloud.
• Enterprise application exposure or knowledge of SAP, Oracle, Exchange, db2, SharePoint, etc.
• Solid knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as storage, servers, networking, cloud , hyper‑convergence, etc.
• Requires strong consultative selling skills which pair product expertise with business, industry and competitive acumen. Solid experience with business case creation and TCO modeling are definite pluses for this role.
• Success penetrating and managing a minimum of three major accounts (Fortune 500‑1000).
• Excellent written, presentation, and communication skills; ability to build and maintain business relationships.
• Ability to work in an organized, procedural manner using tools such as Salesforce.com to facilitate process and information organization.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science/engineering or related and proven technical field experience in IT industry preferred.
• Sales methodology experience (TAS, SPIN, Solution Selling, Challenger, etc .)
• Able to work remotely and autonomously
• Travel up to 50%

Meet the Hiring Manager:Norberto Martinez - Sr. Manager, Sales Engineering

You’ll love working here because:

• High income earning opportunities based on self performance
• Opportunity for Presidents Club
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
• Generous competitive benefits supporting your health, financial security, and work‑life balance

Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.

Pay Range

$93,500 - $232,300 USD

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