Product Specialist, Master Data Management

Job Number: 22754

Position Title: Product Specialist

External Description:

Our Company
Informatica is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software. Thousands of organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives and fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks.

Our Team
The sales teams play a vital role not only with regard to revenue generation, but also with Informatica’s reputation in the marketplace. We’re the frontline evangelists, the direct line to our customers. Our success is due to the knowledge that we can confidently stand behind every product we offer as well as the unlimited potential for personal and professional growth that a position in Sales affords us.

Your Opportunity
This position plays a lead role in supporting technical field personnel on delivering Informatica Master Data Management solutions. You’ll act as a technical member of the sales team and work to ensure technical wins during sales cycles by performing technical qualification of opportunities, architecture solutions, performing solution demonstrations, and proving Informatica’s technical capabilities.

Our Ideal Candidate
You have demonstrable experience in deploying best practices and methodologies with technology to address Master Data Management issues as well as experience in Data Modeling, Data Integration and Data Quality. You possess good project management and organizational skills, and an ability to collaborate with client and sales teams employing good written and verbal communication skills.

Your Responsibilities
You’ll work with account managers, channel managers, solution architects, professional services, and partners to define and execute account plans and sales strategies for pursuing specific opportunities. You’ll also define and propose technical architectures (including associated business and technical benefits) that meet the objectives and requirements of the prospects. A key part of this role is explaining the benefit of Informatica’s Data Quality and Master Data Management products (such as their architecture, features, technical/business benefits, etc.) to prospects through presentations, detailed discussions, demos, and other proof points in order to reinforce the value proposition driven by the account team. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

•Ensure customer satisfaction and ‘reference ability’ through post-sales assistance with technical questions and issues
•Provide Product Management, Product Marketing, and other corporate personnel with input and feedback on product direction, individual features, and positioning
•Grow and enhance your personal knowledge of industry trends, company solutions, information technology, and your competition

Your Qualifications
•1 year of focused experience on Master Data Management solutions
•Degree in computer science or technical discipline related to data integration
•5 years of experience in implementation and/or pre-sales
•At least 3 years of experience working with relational Oracle and/or DB2/UDB solutions
•A minimum of 3 years of experience working with Java and Web development

City: Reston

State: Virginia

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

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Location_formattedLocationLong: Reston, Virginia US