The 'ibm ecosystem' includes thousands of partners who 'build' on, 'sell' or 'service' ibm technologies and platforms.
as a partner technical specialist your purpose is to influence your partners' technical strategies, working to incorporate and embed ibm's technology portfolio into partner's reference architectures, practices, and solutions versus competition.
as a deeply technical seller, you'll increase your partners' technical capabilities by enabling their sales and technical sellers to experientially demonstrate ibm technology at scale with your clients.
excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory.
our sales environment is collaborative and experiential.
part of a team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators - always willing to help and be helped - as you apply passion to work that will compel your partners to lead with ibm offerings when recommending solutions to their clients.
your role and responsibilitiesthe cloud platform partner technical specialist is responsible across the life-cycle for high quality technical solutions to provide business value to clients and other ibmers through the ecosystem, based on ibm cloud platform portfolio.
technical specialist may work with the sales team to support proofs-of-concepts and technical activities (demos/architecture workshops) to help the client decide which product offering best fits their needs.
he/she may work with architects and project managers to provide the deep skills necessary to implement one or more aspects of an end-to-end solution needed for an enterprise quality application deployment.
technical specialist might work in support organizations to answer questions to improve client self-sufficiency, solve problems that arise with cloud product offerings, or provide serviceability feedback to development based on client feedback and product usage.
depending on their technical specialty, he/she may integrate hardware, software, and network solutions to ensure the solution meets requirements and is technically viable in the client's platform (cloud and/or hybrid).
the need for technical specialist spans the entire solution life cycle from end-to-end including requirements, design, development, deployment, operations, and support.
technical specialist helps clients in the implementation of products and technology to realize the desired business value and outcomes, and thus often may require knowledge of the customer industry and how the customer uses ibm products.
the scope of work for technical specialists typically grows over their career to extend beyond their specialty to require other professional capabilities such as architecture, consulting and project management, including development of methods, best practices and tools used by fellow practitioners.
required educationbachelor's degree
preferred educationbachelor's degree
required technical and professional expertiseto deeply understand key concepts of it infrastructure management such as: data processing, networking, storage, virtualization, containers, monitoring and cloud security.to identify differences, benefits and arguments to adopt different cloud models: infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, software as a service from some key providers in the market: ibm cloud, google cloud, aws or azure.to engage in conversations related to hybrid it architecture, considering: networking options to connect to a cloud model, disaster recovery on cloud.to discuss key architectural components to migrate infrastructure and applications from on-premise to cloud model: integration issues, portability, data structures, security.to understand local laws and regulation, industry frameworks best practices related to cloud computing.to explain a real business case where cloud computing was the core of the solution or architecture that the candidate took part of, and participation in sales cycle.to understand metrics of usage and concepts related to quality of service in cloud models: service level agreements, operational key results, operational level agreements.preferred technical and professional experienceto have experience with some ibm systems (ibm power or ibm storage) solutions, so as ibm cloud offerings.understanding of sap rise and cloud model.cloud platform certification by ibm, google, aws, azure, such as: cloud digital leader, associate cloud engineer, cisco ccna.technical experience in a cloud-related domain such as data/analytics, data science, security, or other cloud-native, hybrid, or public-cloud technology.experience working in dynamic team environments and cross-functionally with teams such as product management, engineering, and customer success.about business unitibm has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue.
the company's global markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages ibm's global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally.
these country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation.
by complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, ibm builds deep and broad-based client relationships.
this local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities.
additionally, the global markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that ibm and partners supply.
ibm is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.
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job title: partner technical specialist
job id: 19583
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country: mexico
work arrangement: hybrid
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employment type: regular
contract type: regular
position type: professional
some travel may be required based on business demand.
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shift: general (daytime)
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