senior systems engineer

Type: Permanent/Salaried with benefits
Location: Burlington, MA
Description: Provide pre-sales technical support for customers and expressor sales force including:
presentations, demonstrations, POCs, prototypes and technical account planning.

Responsibilities

  • Technical qualification of prospective customers
  • Document customer requirements, use cases, needs analysis and computing environment of
    prospective customers
  • Coordinate review of customer use case objectives with appropriate company team members
    including; product management, engineering, customer support, sales and professional services
  • Install expressor’s software at customer sites and provide product mentoring for users.
  • Provide product demonstration of complete product suite
  • Present product capabilities on sales calls and marketing events
  • Troubleshoot customer problems post-installation with customer support
  • Represent new customer enhancement requirements to product management

Requirements

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical degree
  • Ability to work from requirements and specifications (documented and undocumented) to derive a set
    of customer objectives and test cases which are thorough, optimal and complete
  • Must be able to research and interview effectively to obtain technical information for POC tasks
  • Ability to articulate product status and issues
  • Ability to work in a sales environment
  • Ability to take direction and provide appropriate feedback
  • Ability to work on a development team in an iterative process
  • 5 years of related work experience with data integration software
  • Experience with data integration software such as; PowerCenter, Ab Initio Software, IBM
    Information Server (DataStage), Trillium Software System, Oracle Data Integrator, Business Objects
    Data Integrator, etc.
  • Experience with message oriented middleware and complex event processing software such as;
    TIBCO Rendezvous, webMethods Product Suite, Streambase, SonicMQ, etc.
  • Experience with data transformation, scripting languages, and SQL

Additional desired skills

  • Experience with J2EE application servers
  • Experience with products and technologies for data warehousing, data profiling, and data governance
  • Experience with Unix
  • Experience with RDBMS configuration (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server) and SQL
  • Experience with other scripting languages (Unix/Linux Shell, Perl, Lua, VB, etc.)
  • Experience with native mainframe environments
  • Experience with data profiling, data quality management, and metadata management