Job Title: Presales Engineer
Reporting to: Director, Insurance Solutions
Location: 123 Commerce Valley Dr, Markham, Ontario
Summary
Provide architectural leadership in the pre-sales activities of Insurance Solutions that leverage Camilion´s ProductAuthority® and Authority Suite®. Play a key role in shaping new customer propositions and providing technical leadership during the full sales cycle
The candidate will bring 7-10 years of software industry experience, including 2-3 years of insurance solutions application design, preferably within an insurance-focused software vendor. Travel is required (predominantly to the United States).
Pre-Sales Activities
As the technical lead on pre-sales activities, the Pre-Sales Engineer plays a pivotal role in the sales cycle of Camilion products for clients in the Insurance industry.
- Act as a visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for pre-sales activities
- Apply knowledge of insurance policy lifecycle and insurance business to technical and architecture requirements to ensure sound business solutions design in the sales cycle
- Respond to technical queries and questions from the prospects during oral presentations and through Request for Information and Request for Proposal processes
- Establish overall architectural view, identification of major system interfaces, development of module reuse on an enterprise-wide scale, and identification of existing architecture weaknesses/opportunities for process reengineering and cost benefit analysis
- Take a leadership position in solution design during the sales process
- Ensure architectural consistency and coherence between technical and business processes and ensure smooth handoff to the delivery Solution Architects
- Understand problem domain and document in design documents
- Identify major technical risk and issues and recommend mitigation options
- Work closely with the Account Executives during the sales pursuit cycles
- Support demos and proofs of concepts during the sales cycle
Knowledge and Skills
- University degree in Computer Science or Equivalent.
- 7+ years of software industry experience, 2+ years in insurance solutions application design
- Strong background in Insurance applications, including experience with Property & Casualty and Life Insurance
- Experience with estimation methodologies and processes
- Experience with Websphere, Solaris, Oracle, performance tuning
- Strong understanding of application architecture and design principles
- Solid understanding of:
- web-based application architectures, specifically J2EE
- object-oriented design principles
- Ability to design software systems at an abstract/conceptual level as well as at a detail level
How to Apply:
If you would like to apply to this position, please send your resume to:
Human Resources
hr@camilion.com
Fax: (905) 482-2805
We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. However, only applicants who are selected for an interview will be contacted.
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