Software Solutions/Pre-sales (financial services)

Do you have 5 years development experience with a strong technical aptitude and the ability to communicate effectively selling technology and solutions at all levels? (this role involves selling and integration platform to the financial services industry) Have you worked with financial services and do you know what these organisations need regarding data and analytics? Are you happy to do some travel within the UK? If you have the technical background required and the aptitude to move into a pre-sales role, training can be provided The role To provide guidance in the use of products as they best suit the requirements of the customer and the market Investigate & demonstrate the use of the products with other 3rd party technologies Manage the technical relationship with prospects and partners, ensuring that they can take advantage of the latest product capabilities Recommend solution architecture, database design, design patterns, migration and upgrade strategies and operational best practices. Install software and assist with benchmarking exercises to determine optimal deployment configurations Provide hands-on mentoring to coach partners and prospects, particularly in the early stages of adoption or during particularly technically challenging projects. Partner with Sales to give presentations to customers and prospects at site visits, marketing events and other venues Carry out technical training in the companies technologies Assist customers and prospects during beta test programmes or pre-launch activities and provide feedback to Product Development About you At least 2 years programming with hands-on expertise in full stack, server based or serverless computing Ongoing experience within the design, development & deployment of complex applications Experience of working with databases, a combination of Relational and NoSQL experience would be a plus Design, analysis and problem solving skills Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree £70,000-£90,000 plus 10-20% bonus on top and excellent benefits package