Senior Solutions Engineer

| United States | Remote
Employer Provided Salary: 92,000-135,000 Annually
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Company Description
Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
Zayo is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer who will be critical to driving mutual success for Zayo and our customers. Our Senior Solutions Engineer serves as trusted technology partner to our customers to reveal what's possible to make their businesses run better, faster, and smarter.
In this Senior Solutions Engineer role, you will be the trusted expert in telecommunications technology and Zayo's products, consulting with Strategic Carrier customers to collaboratively design solutions that customers need. Using a combination of your technical, sales and communication skills you will engage in conversations with customers to discover, understand and analyze requirements and develop tailored solutions that incorporate industry leading practices to enable our customers to realize their goals. In concert with the other members of the sales team, you will present your work as a compelling solution that drives business value for the customer. As a senior member of the team, you will work on the largest and most complex customer designs and you will mentor others, sharing the expertise you've gained during your career to make the entire Zayo team stronger and more valuable to our customers.
Responsibilities:
Sales

  • Keep abreast of the competitive landscape and emerging technologies in order to best position Zayo in the marketplace.
  • Provide guidance and counsel in customer meetings throughout the sales cycle from discovery through close
  • Develop strong relationships with customer's technical influencers and recommenders to be able to effectively resolve all technical objections and drive opportunities to closure
  • Build and communicate the customer-specific value proposition with client executives and key partners, articulating Zayo's contribution to achieving each customer's desired business outcomes
  • Write proposals and support the contracting process by ensuring that all technical and compliance needs are satisfied


Solution Design

  • Analyze customer requirements to understand how Zayo products and services can be applied to meet their needs and solve their problems.
  • Design the right solution options, optimizing the mix of capabilities, resiliency and cost to meet the customer's needs, applying your expertise of local to global services with emphasis on long haul and metro dark fiber, wavelength, Ethernet, and Internet solutions.
  • Employ your exceptional cross-functional leadership skills to manage design teams that include members of multiple departments and project manage complex and iterative designs to completion
  • Ensure the feasibility of the proposed solution with the operations and product teams
  • Document and diagram solutions to clearly outline all technical components
  • Participate in the creation and delivery of compelling face-to-face sales presentations that demonstrate technical knowledge of designed solutions and the Zayo products used in the design
  • Peer leadership in addition to structured mentorship opportunities within the SE/SA org.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more technologies and services


Education

  • Educate and advise customers on key technology and industry trends
  • Actively participate in bidirectional knowledge sharing with your Zayo and Zayo's business partner peers
  • Help develop the product and technical acumen of your sales counterparts
  • Invest in yourself through continuing education, both formal and informal


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field; or equivalent business or military experience
  • Minimum of 5 (five) years' experience in technical sales engineering / support role(s) within the telecommunications industry
  • Industry certification in 2 or more specialized technologies
  • Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, listening, reasoning and objection handling
  • Proficient knowledge and use of common business applications including the Google and/or Microsoft suites
  • Ability to work autonomously and effectively on multiple projects and collaborate effectively with team members from multiple disciplines
  • Ability to handle ambiguity, and anticipate and quickly react to changes in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience developing and delivering technical training programs
  • Expert-level technical skills in networking including optical, routing, switching, software-defined networks, network security, IP voice and unified communications
  • Understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery concepts and experience in designing for a variety resiliency requirements
  • Knowledge of application and data architectures, including public, private and hybrid clouds and edge performance and security demands
  • Ability to create technical designs and diagrams of customer solutions and articulate the design concepts to technical and business audiences
  • A results-oriented mindset


Base pay range: $92,000 - $135,000 USD/annually, commensurate with experience
Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

  • Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
  • Fitness membership discounts
  • Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave


Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

More Information on Zayo
Zayo operates in the Cloud industry. The company is located in Boulder, CO. Zayo was founded in 2007. It has 4000 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Volunteer in local community, Partners with nonprofits, Open door policy, OKR operational model, Team based strategic planning and Open office floor plan. To see all 37 open jobs at Zayo, click here.
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