Senior Messaging Architect Partners Data Systems
Naperville, IL

Job Description

Do you have advanced field expertise in TIBCO's Messaging products? With this Exciting opportunity to collaborate and support our vibrant group of TIBCO Account Executives and regional Solutions Consultants with technical assistance in pre- and post-sales engagements. You'll be able to identify and technically qualify new business opportunities. By participating in the development of the Messaging business and technical strategy, including RFI/RFP responses, sizing and architecture outlines, and coordinating with Professional Services and Alliance partners to win new customers and proliferate usage within the existing customer base.

You'll have a chance to deliver technical architecture presentations and technical solutions according to customer requirements and product specifications. You'll be able to perform hands on design work to prove TIBCO software and hardware capabilities to customers during the evaluation (Proof of Concept) process. Install, configure, demonstrate and troubleshoot the TIBCO Messaging products. You'll need to maintain a working knowledge of the functionality and value propositions of all products within the TIBCO product suite so that you can effectively communicate competitive solution/product differentiators to customers and the sales team. You'll use your teaching and leadership skills to ensure customers are successful integrating our products after the sale is made. You'll also be proactively communicating with the team members and other Solution Consultants on a regular basis as well as provide timely reporting as required by Messaging Business Development Management Duties

* BA/BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent. Master's degree preferred.
* Minimum of 5-7 years experience (includes software development, design, systems/network admin and architecture) and at least 3 years in presales
* Excellent oral and written presentation skills
* Expert knowledge in the architecture and use of open source messaging technologies specifically in Apache Kafka (Knowledge of the following is also preferred: ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, etc)
* Ability to travel (up to 50%); primarily Americas focused with the occasional APJ/EMEA assignment
* Self starter able to work solo or as part as a team
* Expert knowledge in the architecture and use of high performance Messaging systems (TIBCO Rendezvous, EMS, FTL, eFTL, Smart Sockets; IBM LLM, MQ Series; Informatica(29West) LBM; MQTT)
* Deep working knowledge of one or more of the following:
* Network Architecture, Switching, Routing, LAN, MAN and WAN design and troubleshooting
* Multicast system design, monitoring and management
* Development background in C/C++, Java, and .Net
* Messaging interfaces: JMS, AMQP, WCF
* Unix/Linux and Windows system administration and tuning
* Shell/Perl scripting
* High performance services such as Infiniband, RDMA, TOE, and NUMA
* TCP, UDP, PGM, HTTP, TLS, SNMP, JMX, WebSockets and HTML5 protocols



Skills/Requirements

* Lead Generation/ prospect development:
* Respond to technical sections of RFI/ RFP/ RFQ
* Develop and where necessary present business (& technical) proposition to prospects/ customers
* Map business requirements to technology capabilities, identifying gaps and omissions and designing end-to-end solutions
* Development, installation and presentation of demos
* Support of Marketing events
* Explain competitive positioning to prospects and customers
* Look for new business within existing customers and Alliance partners
* Built and perform performance benchmarks on Messaging products
* Create technical product white papers, customer use cases, and other sales materials
* Lead Assessment/ prospect qualification:
* Together with Sales Management assess RFx/ POC opportunities
* Provide sales support in defining the strategy for a given account
* Perform a technical assessment of a given account


* Knowledge Management:
* Share knowledge gained during campaigns through TIBCO intranet
* Work with product management to feedback information from the field


* Proof of Concepts:
* Successfully manage the delivery of POCs leveraging, where necessary, organizational resources
* Execute short POCs, architecture or TIBCO Solutions workshops employing knowledge of key TIBCO products


* Deal Closure:
* Assist the Sales Organization in developing an appropriate pricing model for the customer
* Provide input for the win/loss report
* Complete ROI study with prospect
* Support Sales and Legal with required products for the commercial offer


* Account Management:
* Work with Sales to assess sales activities within prospects
* Communicate product roadmap, planned enhancements or new products to existing customers and partners
* Work with PSG to achieve total customer satisfaction


* Keep abreast of new product development and ensure an associated sufficient level of technical knowledge is acquired to use new products in POC situations and to be able to present their technical attributes and business value to prospects and customers.