Solution Engineer

Summary

Join Neo4j's Sales Engineering team as a technologist, working directly with customers across various industries and technologies. You will lead and contribute to all phases of Neo4j pre-sales projects, persuading prospective users of the benefits of graph database technology. Responsibilities include understanding customer needs, designing solutions using Neo4j and other architectural components, and building prototype solutions. You will also discuss solution architectures, prepare proposals, and engage with technical decision-makers. The role requires 5+ years of pre-sales or professional services experience, excellent understanding of database technologies, architecture skills, and software engineering experience. Industry vertical experience in specific sectors is preferred.

Requirements

• 5+ years working in a PreSales or Professional Services Organization
• Excellent understanding and demonstrable experience with database technologies and data modelling concepts, ideally with NoSQL stores
• Architecture skills - ie mapping a business to technical requirements and understanding multiple components to build a solution
• Software engineering experience
• Familiarity with at least one programming language (Java, Python, Javascript)
• Ability to engage and interact with engineers in an advisory roleComfortable and quick with learning new technologies as needed
• Passionate about solving technical problems
• Capable of educating and training small groups
• Strong understanding of the sales process
• A proactive approach to keeping the technical aspects of a sales process on track
• Industry vertical experience in one of: Financial Services, Retail, Government, Security or Pharmaceutical, Supply Chain, Manufacturing
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
• Ability to work independently, self-directed and remotely in a cross functional organization
• Ability and willingness to travel

Responsibilities

• Working with our customers’ teams, you’ll lead and contribute to all phases of the Neo4j PreSales projects
• Be an integral part of the Neo4j sales team, helping to persuade prospective Neo4j users of the benefits and advantages of graph database technology
• Position the Neo4j technology within the customer’s environment and architecture
• Discuss solution architectures with our customers to address the technical requirements of our customers’ projects
• Design and build prototype solutions that demonstrate required functionality with Neo4j
• Help prepare solution proposals for our customer’s engineering and management teams that help address the overall project goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Graph DB related experience ie Neo4j or other Property Graph or RDF platforms
• Data Science, AI/ML
• Data integration: ETL, Virtualisation, federation
• BI and data visualization (Tableau, Qlik, viz libraries: D3, viz.js , Linkurious...)