Adobe is looking for an upbeat individual with a proven track record of success to join us as a Cloud Solutions Architect. The ideal candidate will be encouraged to draw from experiences gained in the enterprise cloud computing, hosting, and/or handled services industries with a preferred focus on ecommerce to assist in closing revenue opportunities. This would specifically be for cloud commerce deployments and their associated applications and infrastructure. An analytic assessment capability along with knowledge of hardware configurations tailored to customer's requirements is required in building a compelling sales presentation for prospects. Critical to the role will be the ability to assess a merchant’s current situation (pains/objectives) and defining a value solution approach in addressing the current pains/objectives. This person would act in the role of a trusted advisor to the customer/prospect.
The Role
Are you a phenomenal teammate? The role requires you to communicate and collaborate with various stakeholders to assess the use case and offer the appropriate solution. It offers an opportunity to work with Product Management to understand the deployment considerations specific to the Cloud offering and provide market feedback to influence roadmap.
Key Tasks
- Develop and implement strategies and solutions to meet customer requirements around business process, development process, and architectural data flows.
- Ability to demonstrate Magento Commerce Cloud solution concepts, growing the prospect’s/customer’s vision, helping them in their gaps of the enterprise commerce ecosystem.
- Build and deliver Magento presentations, demonstrations and training using standard methodologies.
- Assist in resolving licensing based on merchant specific requirements as they relate to Magento Commerce Cloud infrastructure.
- Help alliance partners to grow and educate the Magento partner community.
Skills Needed
- Minimum 3 years of Magento architecture, Managed Services, hosting experience or similar experience with another ecommerce platform (e.g., Oracle ATG, Hybris, Demandware, NetSuite).
- Understanding of web application hosting infrastructure including web servers, database servers, content delivery networks, application performance monitoring tools, GIT-related code deployments, and various "devops" activities.
- Preferred familiarity with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Fastly CDN, New Relic APM or similar technologies.
- Ability to articulate the advantages of a "PaaS" deployment model versus traditional on premise or "SaaS" deployment models.
- Experience as a technical sales engineer is preferred. Candidates without sales engineering experience will be considered for the role.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Complementary market knowledge/competitive landscape in ecommerce and cloud computing industries.