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Teradata Senior Solution Engineer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Our Company
At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.
What You’ll Do
The Solution Engineer (SE) is an expert technologist, responsible for promoting Teradata solutions to customers, prospects, distributors and for establishing and developing “trusted advisor” status relationships in a target account from the DBA to the CIO.
The SE is a hands-on professional with demonstrable expertise in architecting, designing and delivering analytic data platforms who is as comfortable giving a technical demonstration or in providing specific and relevant advice and guidance on how a new feature should be deployed in a customer’s particular environment as they are in delivering presentations to senior business leaders.
A “T-shaped professional”, the SE understands Teradata technology intimately and also has a good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of relevant partner and competitor analytic technologies
Drive sales and usage of Teradata software by acting as a trusted technical advisor to the client.
Work with the extended account team to identify new workloads that can be brought to the platform and opportunities to leverage new features and functions to optimize existing workloads; be accountable for customer success.
Deal with ambiguity and propose creative solutions that leverage informed assumptions based on his/her experience and expertise where only partial information is available to his/her;
Who You’ll Work With
MEA Solution Engineering / Tech Sales team
Assigned to one or more MEA target accounts and distributors (Turkey, Cyprus & South Africa)
Account Team (Account Executive, Customer Success Manager, …) to define a relevant, actionable account strategy and plan
Reporting to MEA SE Director
What Makes You a Qualified Candidate
Have at least 8+ years hands-on experience in architecting, technology sales, presales experience, designing, or optimizing Data Warehouse, Lakehouse and/or Data Lake solutions (On-premises & Cloud)
Solid understanding of parallel data platform architectures(DWH, Data Lake & Lakehouse) on different deployments options (On-premises & Cloud)
Be a clear, confident and persuasive communicator, with excellent presentation skills and with the ability to structure a coherent, logical argument and the confidence to defend assumptions, projections and recommendations.
Have a degree level qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
Demonstrate excellent organizational and people skills
Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
What You’ll Bring
Solid understand and experience with the top data platforms
Experience with Opensource Technologies such as Spark, Kafka, etc
Teradata Vantage experience
Demonstrate relevant domain expertise in at least one industry vertical (e.g.: Telecommunications, Financials, Retail Finance) or one horizontal (e.g.: Supply Chain)
Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.