Solution Architect / Presales Manager

As a Presales Manager, you will work together with India Sales leaders to introduce the CAST tech to the marketplace. You will help prospective, and existing customers and partners understand the power of our unique technology, develop creative solutions to solve their business challenges, and problem-solve any potential technical roadblocks.

Role & responsibilities

• Prospecting - You will work closely with prospects, existing clients, Global SIs, Cloud partners to understand their challenges and design a solution tailored to their needs. Driving revenue for organization by doing pre-sales activities. Proactive in reaching out to customers and doing follow-ups to close the account.
• Demonstrations You will deliver product demonstrations at various phases of the sales cycle. This includes showcasing product functionality, architecture, and value delivered and impact to their business. Addressing questions of customers and being up to date with product features is essential part of the role.
• Pilot and POC - You will lead this effort in all sales engagements, managing a project end to end, which may also include travel to the customers site. It includes supervising data collection and analysis using CAST technology and articulating different proofs (technical proof, value proof, implementation proof and economic proof). This may also involve an onsite presentation to demonstrate a compelling business case.
• Services handoff - You will be responsible for a formal document and presentation of the account to the implementation team to ensure customer success.
• Product enhancement - You will gather feedback from the field (prospects, existing clients, and partners), collaborate with the Product Management team, and make an impact on the product roadmap. You will deliver customized roadmap presentations to our clients.

Preferred candidate profile

• 8+ years of total experience.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a complex sales process, involving different internal and external stakeholders.
• Passion for the application development world and desire to learn.
• Experience in application development from methodologies (Agile, Lean) to technologies (microservices, cloud-based apps, serverless app) and in software solutions deployment at enterprise level
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to gain the confidence of both VP and C-level counterparts as well as the development and architecture leads at a client organization.
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Background in software development and /or maintenance (SDLC) and modernization of applications.
• Technical Skills (any of these):
• Technologies: Java, .NET, NodeJS, Python, PHP, Angular, React, iOS, Android, JavaScript, HTML5, AI Knowledge, MCP knowledge
• Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker / Kubernetes Legacy: Cobol, IMS, CICS, PL/1, RPG ,
• Database: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, DB2, NoSQL
• AI Experience : The role expects you to use AI to code and understand AI models are and how they interact with agentic IDE platforms like VScode/Kiro/Antigravity