Title:  Account Technology Specialist (Pre Sales)

Job Summary

As a Account Technology Specialist (Pre Sales) in NetApp's Sales Function, you will primarily provide pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions. You will utilise your technical expertise and our cutting-edge data storage portfolio to address customers' technical needs and deliver successful business results. You will be assigned to a district team and sales leader, focusing on expanding our presence within existing and new clients together with business partners.

• Use in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations
• Assists the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and may prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions
• May create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions
• May build a mini-application based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client
• Providing consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation

Job Requirements

• Designing tailored storage technology solutions to address unique customer challenges
• Conveying the advantaged of NetApp storage solutions through presentations, demonstrations, and discussions
• Designing an architecting on-premise or hybrid storage systems (knowledge of NAS, SAN and Object Storage is required)
• Developing storage infrastructure and data management solutions for enterpriser applications, also in the context of Cloud Services
• Providing deep insights into Storage and Data Management vendor eco system, and having had prior experience on backup solutions
• Creating ROI/TCO overview and competitive advantages of solution offerings
• Collaborate with client executives and partner sales to create strategies for developing customer opportunities related to storage solutions
• Advise on engagement and utilization of broader range of technical resources 
• Offering and applying technical expertise on NetApp's storage product and solutions

About You:

• At least 10 Years of experience and expertise in technical specifications on storage product and services
• Prior experience of working in capacity of Sales Engineering, Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineering on storage technologies
• (Preferred) Specialised knowledge in Cloud, Storage, AI/ML, Database, Microservice, Enterprise Application or DevOps is advantageous
• Operate as Subject-Matter-Expert (SME) and has the ability to influence Sales team, driving initiatives and act as a Decision-maker on Projects

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