Systems Engineer

Atlanta, Phoenix, Southern California, Chicago and NY Metro

Duties

Work with Account Executive team to provide technical sales support in sales/product presentations, product positioning and product demonstration. Build proof-of-concept applications based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping. Provide product evaluation support, product installation, application prototyping and benchmarks. Provide post sales support training, problem diagnosis, escalation and resolution.

Responsibilities

Background

• Experience in large data warehouse engagements. Understanding of the data warehouse space, competition, issues, and technology. Spent time working with customers to understand/build ODS, DW and Data Marts. Worked on systems that include; data modeling, loading, aggregation, queries, tuning, modeling, etc.
• Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) and Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) machines. Examples include IBM/SP2, Sun 10K/15K, Pyramid Mesh, HP Clusters, or Teradata. Understanding the architecture of shared nothing, shared everything, and hybrid technologies. What are the benefits of each.
• RDBMS experience in Oracle Grid/Parallel Server, Informix-XPS, IBM-EEE, and Teradata. In depth knowledge of internal workings of one of these parallel databases. Understanding the feature sets and issues with working with these technologies in large terabyte systems. Hands on SQL, Loaders, Backup/Recovers, tuning, issue resolution, architecture limitations, and parallel execution plans.
• OLAP/ROLAP/ETL/Multi-dimensional Cube experience. Hands on experience with these 3rd party tools; installing, configuring, setup, loading data, running. In addition, understanding how cubes are built (dimensions, facts, star, snowflake models, etc).
• Understand the requirements of a project from scoping, expectation setting, requirements gathering, customer signoff, general project planning, and customer success/failure reports. Ability to grasp new technology with little or no formal training. Takes time to understand the problem and find the solution in the most creative way possible. With the understanding that the solution may require a re-think approach or two steps back to take six steps forward. The solution to the problem is not always a linear path and may require a whole to approach to the finding the right path to the solution.
• Ability to communicate with C-Level

Successful candidates must have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• Superior presentation and communication skills
• Must have the desire and experience to be successful
• Experience with a formal sales process
• Ability to forecast accurately
• Possess strong technical, written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Utilize sound business acumen