Senior Sales Engineer Permanent

Harnessing the Power of Data, Together.

The world’s leading enterprises are using our client’s event streaming and management platform to transform their organizations by harnessing the power of events.

The more quickly an enterprise can get information about events to where it needs to be, the more effectively a business can react to opportunities and improve the customer experience. That’s where an event broker (modern messaging-oriented-middleware) comes in.

Help Us, Help Them, Help You.

By joining our clients first-class team, you will be helping leading enterprises, including common household brands we all know and love, reach their full potential in this real-time, digital world.

The next time you drive a luxury vehicle, do some online banking, fly on a plane, or order some furniture online, you could be getting a better experience as a direct result of their technology, and your hard work. Wouldn’t that be great!?

Overview

Our clients Sales Engineering team is seeking dynamic individuals with outstanding technical and interpersonal skills to perform as pre-sales/systems/partner engineers.

As a Sales Engineer you must be self-motivated, flexible, and a team player willing to work for a dynamic, medium-sized company with a culture of excellence.

At our client you will own technical relationships with their customers and prospects, which involve evangelizing on a day-to-day basis in the integration space to a wide array of audiences, from C levels to developers. Our client’s Sales Engineer also drives and owns Proof of Concepts with prospects and partners for identified sales and partnership opportunities, and helps customers and prospects familiarize themselves with their technology from conceptual to hands-on levels. Our client’s Sales Engineer has customer success as a key driver and motivation and helps customers along their journey of our clients adoption, engagement with them on enablement, best practices, and consulting. 

The Sales Engineer position will require travel based on customer needs, and sometimes internationally. You will work closely with the sales and technical teams to support customers on a technical level, run customer presentations, customer trials, customer integration/architecture, and help in the development of new accounts. 

This role is based in Paris, France and will support our clients local customers and initiative.

Required skills/qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree, ideally in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering; Master’s in Science, Business or Engineering an asset.
• 8+ years experience in technology/presales/technical strategy consulting roles in the integration space
• Fluency with French language would be required

Desired Skills/Experience:

You must have solid experience in the following disciplines:

• Messaging Middleware/Integration – Understanding of the application middleware space. Technical knowledge of messaging products such as IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS/RV, and/or Open-Source messaging such as Rabbit, ActiveMQ, etc. would be beneficial to the role. An understanding of SOA and JMS is an essential and working knowledge of AMQP, REST, JavaScript, MQTT would all be assets.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts like Event-Driven Architecture & asynchronous communication and corresponding solutions to various audiences, from CTOs/CIOs to Developers, evangelizing modern concepts to help transform traditional solutions, especially in the integration and digital domains.
• Solid presentation skills and white-boarding skills. This role is customer-facing so the successful candidate must have solid presentation and communication skills and be ready to take on the challenges of a fast-moving, fast-growing, and dynamic environment. Stakeholder engagement, as well as technical leadership team handholding, would be required. Pre-sales experience would be an asset.
• Enterprise Integration Patterns and Solution architecture experience would be an asset. Knowledge of Digital patterns, application lifecycle management, continuous integration.
• Domain knowledge (from a systems integration perspective) of Banking, FSI/Supply Chain/Telco/Public Sector/Transportation /Insurance/Manufacturing would be very useful.
• Application Integration with Java, JavaScript, ESB/API tools, and/or C++/C – The candidate must have experience with software development in either Java or C++/C, SDKs, and API integration.
• Overall industry knowledge about Cloud, IoT, Big Data, Digital, Networking, and other topical technology domains would be beneficial

Why You’ll Want to Join Our Client

• They have an awesome team! You’ll get to work with some of the smartest individuals in the business
• They believe in work-life balance and believe it’s important to love what you do
• They have adopted a hybrid work model to create an inclusive working environment for everyone
• Their training programs are top-notch (LinkedIn Learning, Mentorship program, Solace Academy)
• They like to brag about their stellar customer line up.
• They are social – we like to keep things simple and fun!
• They are one of the top-ranked employers on Glassdoor

They believe that diversity in all of its forms drives innovation and growth, both in business and in life. This is why they strive to create an enriching and safe workplace where you can be who you are. It is only because of you that they can be them.

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