[ajug-jobs] Solution Architect/Pre-Sales Engineer

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Job ID:               1767
Job Title:            Solution Architect/Pre-Sales Engineer
Location:             Atlanta
Business Name:        Hunter Technical
Email:        kendra at htrjobs.com

Job Description:
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Cutting edge Software company is seeking a Solution Architect/Pre-Sales Engineer to work in their Atlanta office. There are three opening. 

Solutions Architects are highly respected members of the team, with broad experience in the design, development, deployment, and support of enterprise Java applications. Middleware SAs have a deep understanding of J2EE/JEE and supporting technologies with experience applying those technologies to solve real-world problems. The Solutions Architect works with the sales team to provide deep technical insight for the product suite. You will be in front of customers on a daily basis (both on the phone/web meeting and in person) and will sometimes travel to client sites.
Middleware Solutions Architects can listen to customers' technical
challenges and can suggest various solution paths, understanding that
"one size does not fit all."

In the evangelist part of the role, you will speak to Java User Groups and others about the product and J2EE/JEE technologies. The Product Management,
Consulting/Training, Support, and Core R&D teams will
collaborate with you as needed based upon your interactions with
customers. This job requires constant learning about new technologies
and how they can be applied to enterprises.

We are looking for consultants and developers who either have some presales
experience or have a natural talent for talking and presenting to
different groups of people. Position provides competitive base salary
plus commission.

Primary Responsibilities will include:
 * Providing technical credibility to the sales team
 *Answer technical questions given to sales team by prospective 
customers (possibly in the form of RFPs or RFIs)
* Develop and conduct live demonstrations of JBoss products
* Conduct live demonstrations of software products
* Educate prospects on the capabilities of  software products
* Identifying the appropriate technologies to solve client problems
* Collect and provide boilerplate responses to competitive FUD
* Form relationships with clients technical staff to identify new
opportunities
 * Contribute to products via documentation (wiki, quick-start guides,
whitepapers) or development (example usage code, bug fixes,
enhancements, suggestions)
 * Provide feedback to Product Management on product direction and feature usefulness (customer applicability)
 
Requirements
 
Required Skills:

* Standard Java Programming (J2SE/JSE APIs like JDBC, JNDI, JAXP, JAAS, etc.

* Enterprise Java Programming (J2EE/JEE APIs like EJB, Servlet/JSP/JSF, JMS, JAX-RPC/WS, JPA, JTA, JCA, etc.)

 * Development/Deployment on J2EE/JEE appservers
(JBoss AS, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, etc.)

* Real World Enterprise Architecture (Deploying an application to
production with significant usage/criticality to the business)

* Communication (Listening, speaking, "knowing your audience", transmission of concepts with/without examples, etc.)

 * Knowledge of standard design patterns and enterprise integration patterns

* Experience designing and implementing enterprise architectures and multi-tiered applications

* Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team

 * Ability to constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customers needs


Preferred Skills:

    * Database design
    * Consulting
    * Pre-Sales/Sales Engineering 
    * Technical writing
    *  Training (especially teaching J2EE/JEE subjects)
    * Multilingualism (English, Spanish, French,
German, Japanese) 

Job Requirements:
* 4-7+ years Standard Java Development
* 3-5+ years Enterprise Java Development (J2EE/JEE)
* 3-5+ years System Architecture
 


Job Restrictions:
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This job was posted on: 2007-12-06

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