Sales Engineer

About the job
Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading data integration, management, and delivery platform using a logical approach to enable self- service BI, data science, hybrid/multi-cloud data integration, and enterprise data services. Realizing more than 400% ROI and millions of dollars in benefits, Denodo’s large enterprise and mid-market customers across 30+ industries have received payback in less than 6 months. For more information, visit www.denodo.com.

We are a fast-growing, international organization with teams across four continents and we work with a cutting-edge technology, but that's not all we have to offer. At Denodo, we are like a family and it is of the utmost importance to us that we help support your professional growth every step of the way.

Job Description
Your consulting projects will include integrating data in a virtual manner for operational and/or informational purposes - Integration of 100+ data sources for a Customer Service Multichannel IT Infrastructure; implementation of Logical Data Warehouses and Virtual Datamarts to enable modern Business Intelligence solutions, Integration Layers for Hadoop-based Data Lakes, and support for Agile Operational Reporting on a diverse Big Data infrastructure are just a few flavours of your future projects.

Be part of an elite team in a rapidly growing international software product company. Your career with us will combine cutting edge technology, exposure to worldwide clients across all industries (Financial Services, Automotive, Insurance, Pharma, etc.), exciting growth path for technical, product and customer-facing roles, direct mentorship, and access to senior management as part of a global team. Your mission is to help our clients and prospects in the French region to realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Denodo's data virtualization capability in many solutions.

As a Pre-Sales Engineer at Denodo you play an integral role in sales of our Data Virtualization software. You work closely with sales team to understand clients’ technical and business needs and to demonstrate how those can be achieved through the capabilities of our Denodo Platform. You own the technical dimension of the sales cycle and successfully employ a combination of high technical expertise, communication and coordination skills between clients and internal Denodo teams to achieve your mission.

Job Responsibilities & Duties

• Conception, implementation, and execution of customer-specific integration projects based on the Denodo Platform.
• Education, coaching and support during the introduction as well as ongoing projects of the Denodo Platform to achieve high level of client satisfaction.
• Diagnose and resolve clients inquiries related to operating Denodo software products in their environment.
• Participate in problem escalation and call prevention projects to help clients and other technical specialists increase their efficiency when using Denodo products.
• Contribute to knowledge management activities and promote best practices for project execution.
• Implement product demos and pilots to showcase Data Virtualization in enterprise scenarios, cloud deployments and Big Data projects.
• Provide timely, prioritized and complete customer-based feedback to Product Management, Sales, Support and/or Development regarding client’s business cases, requirements and issues.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience Range: +10 years.
• Must be native/fluent in Arabic and English.
• University Degree relating to information systems or computer science (Bachelor, Master, Diploma).
• Understanding of Data Integration flavors.
• Solid understanding of SQL and a good grasp of relational and analytical database management theory and practice.
• Good knowledge of software development and architectural patterns.
• Technical skills include Java development, JDBC, XML, Web Service related APIs, experience with version control systems (e.g. SVN, git).
• Basic experience in Big Data, NoSQL, and InMemory environments is welcome.
• Experience in Windows & Linux (and UNIX) operating systems in server environments.

Personal and Relationship Qualities
Professional curiosity and the ability to enable yourself in new technologies and tasks. Active listener. Curiosity and continuous learning. Creativity. Team worker.

Communications
Good written/verbal communication skills (other international languages is a plus) are essential for interaction with clients, making presentations, attending meetings and writing technical documentation.

Willingness to travel
Denodo is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Denodo will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities in accordance with applicable law.