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Big Data. Bigger Opportunities.

The IoT Division believes that our people are our greatest asset and that only through our collective passion, collaboration, and hard work can we truly make a difference for our customers.  We believe in a dynamic, innovative environment that requires a diversity of thought, and that great ideas can come from anywhere.  

This role requires a resourceful, multi-talented individual that enjoys working with ever changing technology and that isn’t intimidated by ambiguity.  In this role, you’ll be a member of an eclectic team whose primary purpose is the collective success of our internal and external customers and partners.  As a charter member in this newly formed division, you’ll be asked to wear many hats – helping sell one day, enabling channel partners another, and building out innovative IoT assets the next.  In a nutshell, you will need to do whatever is necessary to make our offerings and customers successful.

Primary responsibilities will include:

Support 

• Builds a trusted relationship with Sales and Channel Partners to provide practical guidance in the business value of proposed IoT solutions and sets proper expectations to ensure customer satisfaction


• Delivers standard, customized and/or strategic IoT solution demonstrations and presentations outlining the functional and technical capabilities, competitive advantages and business benefits of the SAS IoT solutions as they apply to client needs


• Works proactively with Systems Engineers, Technical Architects, Consultants and other Solutions Architects to strategize on opportunities, cross-training and knowledge transfer

Enablement

• Help to define and develop IoT service offerings, and enable a broad set of professional services teams and partners.


• Develop, document, and communicate IoT best practices.


• Perform advanced or complex prototyping of SAS IoT technologies


• Provide hands-on knowledge transfer of IoT best practices to strategic channel partners.


• Develops standard, customized and/or strategic IoT solution demonstrations and presentations outlining the functional capabilities, competitive advantages and business benefits of the SAS IoT solutions.


• May work on PoC’s and special projects as assigned; act as the IoT lead on assigned activities.

Innovation

• Develop innovative IoT assets that showcase our value and capabilities.


• Develop use cases that demonstrate the value of IoT in new and\or under developed problem domains.

 Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field; with strong experience in technical consulting, systems engineering, applications development and/or customer support experience


• Travel as business needs dictate 

Preferred

• Strong understanding of software, platform, cloud, connectivity and technology in the widest sense


• Strong applied knowledge of IoT or Event Stream Processing; experience in capturing, using, and\or analyzing streaming data


• Understanding of Hadoop Data Architectures and native Hadoop Data Management tools and techniques


• Prior experience in machine learning, statistics, and/or predictive modeling


• Good understanding of the SAS Platform including architecture, security and administration


• Superior facilitation, problem solving, organizational, decision-making, written, oral and interpersonal skills


• Ability to conceptualize clients' needs and translate into specific implementation strategies


• High sales and customer orientation and pronounced consultancy competence


• Very good presentation ability at all levels


• Analytical and strategic thinking


• Ability to communicate with people of various technical and business backgrounds, including the ability to explain difficult technical concepts in simple terms to business users


• Ability to execute against a general set of objectives creatively and in a self-directed manner

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