Job Summary\: Senior technical consultant to German speaking customers and local Oracle sales account team and partners, with the ability to translate customer business requirements into solutions that leverage Oracle's Engineered Systems, Cloud at Customer and Server/Storage product portfolio. Experience with Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle Database or Oracle server/storage products is highly desired to lead or deliver proof of concepts of above-mentioned solutions and products.

Job Description\: The ideal candidate calls him/herself database specialist with significant experience in IT solutions and IT transformation projects. The candidate focuses on technical sales of cloud-ready Engineered Systems and cloud architectures like Microservices and Multimodel databases. The candidate is senior and able to represent Oracle in front of our enterprise customers, is passionate about Oracle database technology as the foundation for enterprise IT.

As a Solution Engineer you will be responsible for formulating and leading presales technical / functional support activity to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction. You act as a technical trusted advisor and focus on large or complex sales opportunities that need creative and complex solutions. Furthermore, you can develop and deliver outstanding Oracle presentations and demonstrations, in some cases hands-on POCs. You are able to lead any and all aspects of the technical sales process. And are able to advise internal and external clients on overall architect solutions.

The candidate should have the ability to\:

• Engage with multiple levels within both Oracle and the customers organizations
• Drive data driven conversations
• Define and lead pre-sales initiatives in target accounts and territories 
• Prepare configurations, define system architectures, and solution proposals of hardware products and associated infrastructure software
• Knowledge about the Enterprise IT market in the region 
• Fluently speak English 
• Oracle Solution Engineers are excellent communicators, able to develop and articulate complex technological issues in a straightforward way to both decision makers and technical personnel alike. The perfect candidate must have the drive, be proactive and is self-motivating.
• Speak and write German fluently.

The ideal candidate should\:

•         Be able to have data management conversations.
•         Be an experienced professional with a successful and proven track record in this domain.
•         Have at least 3 years of hardware products pre-sales experience or working knowledge of installation, support and administration experience in a complex data center and ability to adopt to a sales environment.
•         Have knowledge of server and storage technologies market and products in general.
•         Be able to communicate at management level as well as at a technical expert level.
•         Be proficient in translating complex business requirements into workable technical solutions.