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Iron Mountain Solution Architect in Lansing, Michigan
At Iron Mountain we protect what our customers value most, from the everyday to the extraordinary, while helping them bridge the physical and digital world. Our people have the opportunity to bring their creativity to a workplace that thrives on change. Here, you will be part of a team that doesn’t just embrace what’s exceptional. It creates exceptional.
As a trusted partner to our clients there is a requirement that our Mountaineers must be vaccinated.
Iron Mountain is seeking a Pre-Sales Solutions Architect (SA) to support enterprise accounts. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in technical solution design, architecture and software sales, infrastructure and IT to teams within an Enterprise organization. In addition, experience in solution design leveraging modern hybrid architecture to deliver Information, Content and Data Management solutions are key to the success of the individual. Lastly, the role will require a willingness to travel. The Solutions Architect will be essential to the continued success and growth of our Global Digital Solutions (GDS) business
Technical and Industry Subject Matter Expertise:The Solutions Architect will have the ability to communicate a clear in depth understanding of modern as well as historical Enterprise technology including content management, business process management, information management and governance, data protection and archiving solutions based on experience from a background in Pre-Sales solutions design, architecture, implementation, administration, or sales engineering for relevant solutions. The Solutions Architect will leverage this expertise to properly design, position and sell Iron Mountain solutions to solve prospects business and technical requirements. The SA will understand how modern technology such as Cloud SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and ML / AI are being used in key industries to advance business transformation.
Presentation and Communication:The Solutions Architect will be responsible for understanding, designing, positioning, and presenting Iron Mountain digital solutions. They will gain an understanding of the customer’s technical and business challenges and appropriately architect, demonstrate and position Iron Mountain solutions to solve these challenges. The Solutions Architect articulates the technology value to customers during the pre-sales process and uses knowledge of technology, products, processes, and industry expertise to educate customers on the value of Iron Mountain’s services.
Proven ability to advance sales: The Solutions Architect will assist, enhance and advance customer engagements. The Solutions Architect is engaged by the Iron Mountain sales team when an opportunity is identified and requires technical solution design and architecture expertise to aid in further qualification, positioning and deal advancement.This advancement includes building rapport, setting expectations, positioning value and providing solution design to solve customer technical and business challenges. The Solutions Architect’s goal is to increase Iron Mountain digital solutions sales.
Responsibilities:
Understand customers physical and digital information environment and identify challenges; provide problem solving as it relates to Iron Mountain services
Scoping and Solution Design across the Iron Mountain Digital portfolio
Present solution overviews and demonstrations
Answer advanced product questions
Pilot / Proof Of Concept (POC) development, tracking and support
Answer sales teams questions and provide training as needed
Support technical portion of RFPs and RFQs
Gather and share intelligence on market trends, industry trends and competitors
Attend relevant trade shows and marketing events to create and advance opportunities
Provide solution configuration recommendations, architectural diagrams, quote/schedule/contract/SOW creation, modification and support
Proficient in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return On Investment (ROI) modeling
Exceed assigned pipeline and quota achievement.
KPIs:
Number and size of opportunities supported
Solution Designs and successful customer business outcomes
Bookings supported
Revenue achieved for digital solutions
Product Market and Industry expertise and achievements
Preferred experience:
Content Services, Workflow, Business Process Management and Information Governance
Enterprise Software for structured and unstructured data and content management
Cloud SaaS experience in the content services platform and information management market
Experience in data recognition / analysis technologies and how they are used in Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neural Networks, ECM-solutions, Document Management
Experience in solution development, pricing and demonstrating scanning, OCR, ICR and Document Management / ECM solutions
Industry specific expertise around modern technologies and their impact in business transformation
Background and proven experience of consultative solution approaches, pre-sales process and technology focused-solution selling.
Ability to team effectively at all levels of Iron Mountain and customer personnel (to include C-level) on a wide range of topics and issues
Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
Strong interpersonal, planning, and analytical skills.
Self-motivated and a strong drive to seek information and support in succeeding.
Ability to influence and negotiate.
Ability to make decisions and think in broad terms, considering the impact to the entire company.
Enterprise Software including ERP, CRM, Document/Content management Information Governance and BI
Enterprise Storage - Understanding of NAS, DAS, SAN, and Object Storage, HDFS, Converge and Hyper-converge Infrastructure, software and hardware storage technologies
Enterprise network architecture and advanced networking technologies
Enterprise Data Protection- Understanding of security, backup, recovery and data protection applications
Enterprise data archiving techniques and applications
Cloud market and use cases – Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google (GCP)
Virtualization – VMWare, Docker, Hyper-V, Cloud computing
Category: Sales Group
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Requisition: J0041348