Location: UK - London | Job-ID: 209805 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Sales & Pre-Sales & Alliances
Life on the team
Are you looking to be a leader in solutions and services presales for Cloud & Applications? Are you passionate about improving the Developer Experience and considered an expert in Application Development and modern software delivery tool chains? Have you got proven experience helping enterprise teams tackle challenges through industry leading technologies and services? Are you a technical thought leader and commercially minded? Would you like to work for a company that has opportunities for personal development?
As part of our journey to become Europe's leading independent provider of IT services, empowering our customers to acquire Developer Velocity, modernise their applications and successfully adopt public cloud platforms, we are looking to grow our solutions team within Cloud & Applications with an exceptional Pre-sales Solution Lead.
The Cloud & Applications business exists to help customers build world class software solutions and cloud platforms to drive their business forward.
As a Pre-sales Solution Lead you will be responsible for working alongside our Solution Sales Specialists to help customers modernise their applications and software delivery, by selecting the right technologies, access Computacenter Professional Services and build lasting trusted advisor relationships with some of the world’s largest customers.
What you’ll do
Sharing your experiences of software delivery to help customers understand modern software development practices, and explore opportunities to improve their developer velocity Work independently and alongside our Solution Sales Specialists and Account Managers to identify, qualify and progress complex transformation opportunities in the field of Cloud & Applications Engage our customers application and architecture teams on their needs for application architectures and software delivery to position our solutions for modernising and improving Help position technologies from leading industry partners, alongside Computacenter’s core catalogue of Professional Services and Portfolio of Services for Cloud & Applications To attend customer opportunity / strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for both Computacenter and the customer. Build lasting relationships with key stakeholders at identified customers, becoming a trusted advisor on technical strategy. Understand and be an expert internally for our core Cloud & Applications go to market propositions and advocate for these amongst the sales community. Support the growth of the Cloud & Applications Solution Area and delivery against its sales targets. Help represent the voice of the customer into internal forums to develop our Portfolio of Service offerings where requested, and in support of the Solution Area Director. Represent Computacenter at partner boards and forums, attend relevant events and conferences and act as a point of technical escalation within the business, ensure that this knowledge is shared across the business.
Secondary Responsibilities and Opportunities
Help influence the development of the propositions and strategy of the Cloud & Applications Solution Area, working alongside our Group development colleagues and the Office of the CTO Engage within a broad virtual team across Computacenter comprising Professional Services, Group Managed Services, Solution Leaders and Architects to help customers access and procure key technology solutions and services. Providing proposition and market insight to the Solution Sales Specialist within customer opportunities for both new and core Solutions.
What you'll need
Possess recent first-hand experience in building modern applications and implementing platforms for automating software delivery Proficiency in [relevant programming languages, e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript], and experience with frameworks such as [Spring, Angular, React]. Expertise in the process of designing, developing, and implementing scalable and robust application architectures in an enterprise business Experience in working with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other developers, to deliver high-quality software solutions Experience in owning customer relationships from a technology perspective Experience in selling compelling and innovative Application Development customer solutions
About us
With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.