Systems Engineer - Eastern WA (Finance)

Systems Engineer - Eastern WA

This role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer (SE) to join our team. Responsible for providing technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet a customer's business needs. Creates and maintains effective customer relationships to secure customer satisfaction. Provides the deepest level of product- and technology-specific expertise available to customers from anyone in the sales organization in deal pursuit situations. Aligned to specific products or product-lines. These jobs focus on selling to customers, typically through work that occurs outside HPE offices.

The SE primarily provides pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex network and security products/applications/solutions. As a Pre-Sales/Systems Engineer, the SE will be responsible for managing pre-sales technical / functional support to prospective Clients and Partners while ensuring customer satisfaction. With a proven track record of successful sales support activity, the Systems Engineer will present and articulate the capabilities and values of an Aruba Solution versus that of our competitors. The preferred candidate will have career level experience with networking infrastructure technologies in all arenas.

The SE will work with Aruba's Territory Managers to qualify opportunities and convert leads into successful engagements. The Systems Engineer must combine excellent sales support, and consultative skills with an expert understanding of advanced and emerging technologies with an emphasis on campus and distributed branch networks. The Systems Engineer will consult with their assigned Territory Manager to provide a comprehensive pitch to prospective clients.

This Systems Engineer will proactively support an opportunity pipeline and drive through the sales process to closure. This career level position requires the ability to lead in a team environment and to collaborate on the development of innovative, tailored solutions for both clients and prospects. Incumbents must know how to gather the client data required to effectively tailor a solution. Solution selling is a must, and incumbents need to understand the various ways a solution may be delivered and can anticipate what will work best for a given client. By combining technical expertise with business acumen this role provides vital, detailed information about how Aruba's solutions deliver business value to our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Manage account and partner technical relationships for selected accounts in assigned territory.
• Provide the optimum combination of hardware, software, and services to meet complex customer needs.
• Play a role in the development of the bid, proposal, and presentation of the solution to the prospect.
• Provide specific solutions/technology/product/technical and sales support for accounts in assigned territory.
• Perform technical presentations for customers, partners, and potential prospects.
• Manage vendor partners to help drive business and deliver demand generation events.
• Drive technical account relationships over time to continue to deliver advice to the customer and identify additional opportunities; maintain and manage customer technical relationships.
• Possess competitive career knowledge including solutions, technology, and product offerings.
• Provide consultative support to key internal/external stakeholders in assigned territory.
• Use in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations.
• Assists the sales staff in assessing the potential application of company products to meet customer needs.
• May prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions.
• May create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions.
• May build a mini-application based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client.
• May provide consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation

Education and Experience Required:

• Technical University or Bachelor's Degree; advanced degree preferred
• Typically, 6 years' experience in technical consultative selling and account management around Network and Security Solutions
• Technical and solutions experience in State and local government, and education.
• Experience in Network technology and security.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Demonstrates expert knowledge of the company's latest technology and solutions.
• Expert in competitive solutions knowledge.
• Leverages company solutions to support customer IT strategic directions, creating extensive customer business value.
• Applies a deep understanding of technical innovations & trends to solving customer business problems.
• Strong credibility with the company's business units and account teams based on history of solid results and contributions.
• Applies productivity-enhancing tools and processes.
• Establishes thought leadership in technical specialty area with customers.
• Demonstrated ability to work as the lead for large complex projects at a regional level.
• Has a deep understanding of company's product & service capability for multiple BUs.
• Has demonstrated extensive hands-on level skills with a broad range of the technology.
• Demonstrates skilled use of listening and communication skills in identifying solutions that create business value for the customer.
• Understands business metrics and drivers for multiple levels of customer management and appropriately tailors communications to demonstrate value of solutions.
• Leverages deep understanding of the competition - both positioning strategy and technology - to create competitive advantage for the company.

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Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:
Sales
Job Level:
TCP_04

States with Pay Range Requirement

The expected salary/wage range for a U.S. -based hire filling this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. If this is a sales role, then the listed salary range reflects combined base salary and target-level sales compensation pay. If this is a non-sales role, then the listed salary range reflects base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered. Information about employee benefits offered can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html .

USD Annual Salary: $141,000.00 - $332,000.00

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