Specialist Solution Engineer – Analytics (Tableau)
InformaticaBase Salary
$157k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Align analytics and multi-product solutions with complex Technology, Media & Telecom enterprise customer challenges.
- Partner with Account Executives and analytics sales teams to support technical sales and advance opportunities.
- Conduct discovery, define ambiguous business problems, recommend practical next steps, and build customer consensus.
- Create working demos, rapid prototypes, data models, and proof-of-value solutions.
- Present analytics, AI, and data strategy to C-suite and other technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Build agents with open and closed LLMs and design architectures that effectively manage token consumption.
- Advise on data and analytics architecture across Tableau, Salesforce, cloud data platforms, and transformation tooling.
- Apply sales methodologies to qualify opportunities, build business cases, and advance deals.
- Tailor demos and solutions for personas ranging from data engineers to executives.
- Complete required product, sales, procedural training, and certifications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, Data Science, or equivalent experience.
- Deep industry experience with a track record of presenting to and influencing C-suite executives.
- Demonstrated thought leadership in analytics, data, or AI through speaking, publishing, or customer strategy advising.
- Hands-on experience with Tableau, CRM Analytics, or Tableau Next.
- Familiarity with data visualization, dashboarding, and self-service analytics best practices.
- Hands-on expertise with modern cloud data warehouses and data lakes, including practical experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and dbt.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills across structured and semi-structured data.
- Proven ability to take ideas through to working solutions.
- Working knowledge of sales methodologies and technical deal-cycle support.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%.
- Preferred: prior solution engineering, sales engineering, consulting, CRM, analytics, BI, or similar customer-facing technical experience.
- Preferred: experience supporting Technology, Media, or Telecom customers.
- Preferred: experience using Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar AI tools in demos.
- Preferred: familiarity with AI/ML fundamentals, Einstein, agentic AI, predictive analytics, design thinking, persona-based discovery, or workshop facilitation.
- Preferred: basic scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, HTML, or similar.
- Preferred: Salesforce and Tableau certifications.
Benefits
- Fully remote or hybrid work arrangements are available for candidates in Washington and California, with Pacific Time working hours.
- Up to 25% travel for customer engagements and team events.
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role is eligible for applicable incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com