Principal Solution Engineer

What makes us Qlik?

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 15 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.

We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.

Qlik’s Data Integration Platform 

Qlik’s Data Integration Platform accelerates the discovery and availability of analytics-ready data structures by automating real-time data streaming, refinement, cataloging and publishing. It enables a DataOps approach and drives agility in the analytics process through automated data pipelines that stream between transactional systems, next generation cloud, data lake and data warehouses to provide actionable data on-demand.  

Relied upon by more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100, Qlik’s Data Integration Platform comprises the market-leading data integration capabilities of Attunity, now a division of Qlik, along with data management and cataloging from the acquisition of Podium Data.  Built for an open ecosystem this works alongside any technology and any analytic solution.  When combined with Qlik’s own market-leading data analytics platform this creates an end-to-end solution that helps our customers optimize the use of data and make quicker, better business decisions. 

The Principal Solution Engineer Role

The Pre-Sales Organization at Qlik is a key interface to our customers and prospects working in tandem with all other Qlik departments, including Business Development, Sales, Consulting and Support.  In this role, you will leverage these relationships in order to support overall sales efforts to drive revenue in net new accounts and expand our presence in the territory's existing customer base. The teams work geographically and may be industry focused as well. 

Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:

• Provides hands-on Pre-Sales support for prospects.  Such support to include presentations, demonstrations, site visits to support evaluation projects, telephone guidance for installing and using the product.  All of these activities are to be in close cooperation with the salesperson for each account so as to progress toward the business “close” expeditiously.
• Presents and demonstrates product at various seminars and trade show venues.  Provides similar support for technical and financial analyst meetings and press editorial meetings.
• Provides technical sales liaison with Product Engineering.  Remain current with the product functions and features, and with alternative products in the markets Qlik serves.
• Keeps up to date with versions of supported operating systems, database management systems and network transport protocols.

We’re looking for a teammate with:

• More than 8 years of technical experience, of which at least 5 years in Pre-sales, preferably in a software organization
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Preferred degrees: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information management
• Database / security / software engineering qualification may be advantageous
• Expertise and experience dealing with large, multi-national accounts at senior IT and business levels
• Hands-on experience in Pre-sales support or related customer interacti