Technical Solutions Engineer (Pre-Sales) at Oracle

Your RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in architecting enterprise solutions. This TSE will become part of the regional African TSE team serving the following main responsibilities:
• Provide high quality technical pre-sales services to customers and partners (value proposition, technical workshops, hybrid products positioning) through presentations, demonstrations/seminars, proof of concepts, installations, response to Invitations to Tender and Request for Information documents
• Provides direction and specialist knowledge on new technologies and product features
• Work with our clients to model their data landscape, obtain data extracts and define
• secure data exchange approaches; good practice data integration strategies etc.
• Acquire, ingest, and process data from multiple sources and systems into Big Data platforms
• Have a strong understanding of Information/ Data Security principles to ensure compliant handling and management of client data
• Facilitation of customer product model understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks. 
• Formulating and leading presales technical / functional support activity to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Lead and participate in marketing activities (presentations, events, articles etc.) 
• Maintain knowledge and commercial awareness of the competitor product/solution offerings and value propositions 
• Understand the needs and pains of the customer and then map to Oracle products
• Acting as an expert in the Middleware space

Your QUALIFICATIONS:

• University Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or any other equivalent degree
• Minimum 10 years of proven experience and track record related to Oracle technologies   
• Professional Qualifications on Oracle and/or 3rd party (TOGAF, ITIL, ISO, CISSP, CISM, AWS, GOOGLE, AZURE)  
• A good level of understanding of Oracle’s overall technologies and hybrid solutions.
• Feel comfortable developing and presenting solutions to IT as well as Business users using the appropriate approach and language
• Experience working within OR with banking industry and/or public sector is a great advantage.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal