Senior Sales Solutions Architect - GCP (RapidScale)

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Job Family Group

Sales

Job Profile

Sr. Solutions Engineer - CCI

Management Level

Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option

Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region

Travel %

Yes, 25% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $136,100.00 - $204,100.00. The salary rate may vary within the anticipated range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's experience. In addition to the salary range identified herein, this role is also eligible for an annual incentive/commission target of $52,800.00.

Job Description

Our Sales SA positions will require 25-35% travel to conferences, partner offices, and customer sites.

What does the Sales Solutions Architecture Team do?

Sales Solution Architects work in partnership with Solutions Specialists (Sales Representatives) and serve as their technical counterparts in all phases of the sales lifecycle. From evangelizing technologies to demonstrating our feature-rich Cloud Reliability Platform, our job is to help customers figure out and solve their cloud initiatives. We do this by taking a consultative approach in our discovery and assessment phases with the output being solutions that are built with reliability, performance, and security baked-in on top of our Managed Cloud Portfolio. As an integral part of the Solutions Architecture team, you will design systems that are purpose-built and well suited to their target infrastructure.

What You'll Do:

As a Solution Architect you will:

• Provide Pre-Sales technical support to the GTM Team to drive revenue and cloud adoption
• Conduct full technical discovery and assessment workshops to identify pain points and gather business and technical requirements. This will include Well-Architected Reviews, Migration Readiness Assessments, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis, etc.
• You will architect client solutions to meet client requirements using a well architected framework methodology
• Clearly communicate proposed architectures in the pre-sales cycle for early validation and verification to the internal teams responsible for implementing and providing ongoing support
• Be a technology evangelist and educate prospects and customers on the cloud solution that makes the most sense for their business and technology requirements
• Interface with Product Marketing and provide feedback for improving product quality and capabilities by leveraging information gathered in field engagements
• Collaborate in the creation of technical collateral (e.g. SOWs, HLDs), and help develop sales staff by providing formal training
• Produce cost and labor estimates and SOWs for potential …