Solutions Engineer

Role Overview

• Collaborating with the Account Executive to thoroughly understand the prospect's technical environment, Cloud Data Platform cost challenges, cost optimization goals, and key business objectives through in-depth technical discovery sessions.
• Owning and driving the technical validation and Proof of Value (POV) exercises for SELECT. This includes meticulous POC preparation, proactive management, and ensuring successful technical outcomes, demonstrating clear value and alignment with prospect requirements.
• Tailoring and delivering compelling SELECT platform demonstrations to prospects, effectively showcasing its capabilities and addressing their specific use cases and concerns.
• Leveraging your analytical skills and deep understanding of Cloud Data Platform to develop compelling business cases and robust ROI analyses that clearly articulate the tangible value, cost savings, and performance improvements achievable with SELECT.
• Becoming the go-to expert within the company for SELECT, ensuring prospects achieve optimal results and a seamless implementation experience.
• Taking full ownership of the technical win for SELECT engagements, guiding prospects through the technical evaluation process, addressing all technical requirements, and building technical confidence in the solution.
• Representing DoiT and SELECT at company events and industry conferences, delivering engaging presentations and demonstrations to a wider audience, showcasing our Snowflake/Databricks (and soon BigQuery) optimization expertise as well as platform capabilities.
• Translate customer pain points and feature gaps into structured, technically credible input for R&D teams. Represent the voice of the technical customer in roadmap discussions.
• Ensure timely entry of data into internal business support solutions. Contribute to systems and tools to provide key business information and metrics to highlight performance and effectiveness.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Solutions Engineering role within a B2B SaaS software company, having a significant portion of that experience focused on selling to Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery users and directly addressing challenges related to Cloud Data Platforms or cloud cost management.
• Deep and demonstrable understanding of Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery as well as associated best practices
• Hands-on experience working with SaaS solutions focusing on Cloud Data Platforms in the areas of observability, optimization, FinOps, or data integration.
• Exceptional data analysis skills with a proven ability to identify key trends, outliers, and correlations as well as the translation of those observations into actionable insights.
• Strong track record of leveraging product data to construct compelling business cases and ROI justifications for prospective customers, clearly demonstrating the substantial cost savings and performance enhancements achievable through our solution.
• Exceptional ability to articulate complex Cloud Data Platform related concepts and SELECT functionalities in a clear, concise, and easily understandable manner to both technical and business audiences.
• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills, with the confidence and expertise to present on sophisticated topics such as Cloud Data Platform optimization strategies and the compelling value proposition of SELECT.
• Strong intellectual curiosity, exceptional problem-solving abilities, and a genuine passion for continuous learning and improvement within the dynamic Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery ecosystem.
• Proven experience working with and presenting to executive-level prospects and customers on critical topics related to Cloud Data Platforms and especially cost management.
• Demonstrated experience with modern technical selling best practices/methodologies and a successful track record in competitive sales environments, including the ability to contribute to and implement effective trial, demo, and RFP processes specifically tailored for Cloud Data Platform optimization solutions like SELECT.
• Prior professional experience as a Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery data engineer/architect or FinOps professional is a plus.
• A proven history of success in a fast-paced and scaling business, ideally within the Cloud Data Platform ecosystem.

Tech Stack

• BigQuery
• Cloud

Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation
• Flexible Working Options
• Health Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Home Office Allowance
• Professional Development Stipend
• Peer Recognition Program