Ddn

Senior Solutions Architect - Pre Sales

Bangalore, Karnātaka, India · On-site · FullTime

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EmployerDdn
LocationBangalore, Karnātaka, India
Work styleOn-site
Employment typeFullTime
Employer posted2 months ago

We are currently seeking candidate for Pre-Sales Solutions Architect – India, to join our dynamic team of passionate customer-enabling technologists ! The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of AI & HPC infrastructure solutions and a proven track record of driving successful pre-sales engagements with great communications and presentation skills. The candidate expected to:

Design solutions and proposals to meet customer-defined specifications,

Help customers define solution specifications matching DDN products,

Provide Proof of Concept (POC) and benchmarking support,

Compare and contrast with competitive products to highlight DDN’s superior features & functionality

Work with DDN engineering, professional services and sales teams to drive win ratio.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to;

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Pre-sales activity supporting HPC and AI customers.

Assist in closing new business opportunities by gaining a thorough technical and business understanding of clients' needs and helping sales identify, qualify, and close new opportunities.

Understand the sales process and how to utilize company resources to close accounts.

Participate in customer-focused seminars, tradeshows, events, and training.

Provide RFP responses, technical drawings, presentations, and recommendations.

Acquire and maintain a thorough technical and procedural understanding of DDN Sales cycles, products/services and a thorough technical understanding of similar industries.

Create of Bill of Materials of proposed solutions for DDN products and professional services.

Ability to work with DDN Subject Matter Experts from different geographies and time zones.

Ability to manage customer relationship post-sale, including strategy to close repeat business.

Qualifications:

BSc or higher degree or equivalent

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Ability to simplify and explain complex tasks, architectures and environments.

Good written and oral communication skills. Must be able to develop and deliver presentations; connect and build a rapport with customers via phone, face to face meetings, and in written correspondences.

Ability to work independently, respond timely and remain composed in hectic environments.

Ability to listen, understand and articulate the customer's needs, along with possible solutions to sales team and sales management.

IT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING HIRED IF YOU HAVE:

5+ years of “relevant” pre-sales experience

Good understanding of AI ecosystem of NVIDIA/AMD/INTEL GPUs including but not limited to hardware components, software libraries, containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, middleware and application stack.

Good understanding of storage technologies including SAN, NAS, DAS, Parallel Filesystems, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage etc.

Good knowledge of storage protocols like BLOCK I/O, NFS, SMB and S3 and what’s required to build solutions around them.

Good understanding of Ethernet and InfiniBand networking technologies including network topology, blocking ratios, throughput and IOPS capabilities etc.

Experience of working with Lustre/GPFS/Weka/BeeGFS in the capacity of building or deploying the solution is a plus.

Experience of architecting or deploying solutions in public or private clouds and multitenant environments.

Understanding of appropriate content to be developed to address different set of customers (as per their seniority level in the organization).

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