Lead Solutions Architect

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Job Description: Lead Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales): VMware by Broadcom An exciting opportunity exists within our mature Sales organisation for a Lead Solutions Architect. This position represents an opportunity to join our dynamic company and become an integral part of a talented team transforming the technology landscape. As a VMware by Broadcom pre-sales Solutions Architect, you’ll play an important role in building and sustaining customer relationships, while driving the adoption of our solutions to achieve our revenue goals. As an SA you’ll also work very closely with our extended sales teams to build long-term business relationships within assigned named accounts and territories. The SA role is a high-impact and highly visible senior position, responsible for ensuring pervasive adoption of VMware solutions and assisting in closing transactions within your accounts.

The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? An opportunity to work with a leading technology company that builds foundational Cloud and IT platforms for companies all around the world. You will enjoy learning about the wide range of problems we solve for customers and how you can help them transform and build better IT environments for the future. If you are looking forward to working on the latest and top of the line technology platform that VMware provides, along with strong learning opportunities, then this is the place to be.

Success in the Role: What are the skills and performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? To be successful in this role, we’re looking for a Lead Solution Architect who can combine their extensive experience with VMware’s technologies to be able to assist our customers in realizing their business objectives by leveraging VMware’s technology, products and solutions. You need to at least possess the following skills:

• Solution Design and Architecture
• Pre-Sales Support
• Technical Expertise and Product Knowledge
• Collaboration and Communication
• Customer Relationship Management

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? As a Lead Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for a number of regular activities and these will vary depending on your professional strengths and could include:

• Preparation of presentations to customers
• Building of technical architectures and proposals
• Leading regular cadence discussions around current and future projects
• Build and help run a greater team strategy with the different business units
• Tie VMware technology to how it would assist the customers business outcomes
• Assist with customer satisfaction concerns
• Communicate in a timely fashion to customer requests
• Assist with regular business reviews

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like? This role reports to the Emerging region Solution Engineering Director. They have an extensive background in technology and personnel management and take pride in being in the privileged position to lead a brilliant team. It is a diverse team where we encourage collaboration and build trust. We support each other, celebrate our wins, and share our mistakes and what we learned. The latter is key to building transparency, confidence, and a growth mindset. Finally…. We have lots of fun.

Where is the role located? The role is based in VMware’s Dubai/UAE office and is only open to candidates in the UAE. Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law. If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.