CDW - Vernon Hills, IL
posted 3 months ago
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges. The Senior Field Solution Architect (FSA) role focuses on pre-sales solution design. This role is responsible for working with internal and external sales teams to plan and organize sales strategies. The incumbent analyzes the sales environment including customer expectations, competitive environment as well as the customer's technical environment and define actions to be performed in the sales cycle timeframe. The Senior FSA is a field-based technical presales role. They are expected to spend the majority of their time engaged with CDW customers and locations in their local markets. The Senior FSA develops and maintains strategic relationships with Sales Management of the teams they support and is seen as a trusted advisor to grow business. The Senior FSA is expected to be a subject matter expert in multiple families of solutions. The incumbent in this role operates independently using standard approaches, existing tools, templates, and resources; shares knowledge and information that may benefit the team. This role will have a specific focus on assisting our customers and sellers in qualifying and identifying opportunities with the modern data solutions stack including initiatives around AI/ML, advanced analytics, data science, data engineering, data architecture with related tools and CDW consulting and service. As a Senior Field Solution Architect, you will understand our client's data environment and high-level infrastructure and own the process of developing scopes of work that help customers achieve their business outcomes. This role is a generalist in the domain of modern data solutions and will need to understand general modern data tools (such as but not limited to: PowerBI, Tableau, IBM Analytics portfolio, Informatica, Snowflake, Denodo, Talend, Alation, Erwin, Collibra etc.), high-level architecture and technologies and be able to speak to the broader vision of that solution and how it can solve customer business challenges. Training on emerging modern data solutions partner technologies will be an ongoing requirement for this role.