Pre Sales Solution Architect
Egypt
The Solution Architect (SA) leverages broad technical knowledge of all Teradata products and services to promote sales of Teradata solutions within specific industries, by providing technical knowledge in sales support activities.The SA should have wide experience of Data Warehousing and Big Data Analytics generally with expert knowledge in many aspects of Teradata products and services within these areas. The SA will participate in the design and development of an architecture that will be aligned with the client's business objectives based on business, information, application, and system requirements. The SA is able to articulate the benefits to the customer of the Teradata Analytic Architecture, Unified Data Architecture and Reference Information Architecture. The SA is highly consultative and always seeks to first understand the customer's business, information, and application requirements. The SA will thoroughly understand the client's information technology infrastructure and serves as the key link between business needs and technology enablers. While continually analyzing the customer's ever-changing business and technical requirements, the SA will take the lead in translating those requirements and strategies into, not only, Teradata, Teradata Aster, and Hadoop products, solutions, and services, but also third party partner products, where appropriate, as well as integration with the customer's overall strategy and architecture. The Solution Architect ensures that the proposed solutions are business enabling and technically innovative, ensures improved ROI, and identifies additional uses for the client's investment in the Teradata data warehouse, Teradata Aster, and Hadoop solutions, and services. The SA establishes or enhances mid-level customer relationships, provides technical guidance on engagements, and identifies new target application opportunities within customer and prospect accounts.