Client Solutions Engineer

\n### Roles and Responsibilities\n- Possess deep data center expertise (multiple layers of the stack).\n- Present at Technical Briefings and Lab Demonstrations with clients and partners to showcase AHEAD's value.\n- Considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or many technologies for the team to leverage.\n- Recognized by the partner community to own technical sales campaigns without their support.\n- Qualify and position consulting engagements and services.\n- Provide coaching and mentoring to team resources in order to enhance their solution knowledge, technical acumen, and pre-sales skill sets.\n- Qualify sales opportunities in the terms of client technical requirements, decision making process and funding and decides if we should move forward with the campaign.\n- Understand and articulate AHEAD's Enterprise Cloud Framework.\n- Prioritize opportunities and efforts assigned to the geography based on maximizing total impact on team productivity and profit.\n- Drive engagement conversions to additional services / solutions.\n- Provide feedback to improve internal efficiencies.\n- Work with Practice Directors to provide input and suggestions for new solutions and offerings.\n- Present regularly at AHEAD events, user groups, conferences, and forums.\n- Lead Solution Verification / BOM Review process for the geography.\n\n### Qualifications\n- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent\n- 4+ years Pre Sales and Data Center experience is required\n- Professional communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills\n- Experience working as a technical lead in a pre-sales sales campaign\n- Extensive knowledge of one or more of the following data center solutions: storage, networking, compute, virtualization, data center management / automation, and security\n- Ability to work under critical conditions and influence others to achieve results\n- Strong interpersonal skills with excellent presentation skills\n- Must be independent, self motivated, a self starter and possess a good working attitude\n- Able to work well within a team and partner environment\n- Customer focused and results driven\n