Role overview

This Consulting Pre-Sales Systems Engineer position focuses on technical leadership within a portfolio of major financial institutions, including global banks, asset managers, and payment networks. You will serve as the senior technical strategist for these accounts, driving multi-year, multi-million dollar platform decisions around data infrastructure, modernization, and resilience.

Key responsibilities

Develop and maintain technical account plans that document customer architecture, constraints, roadmap, current Everpure deployments, and identified opportunities for expansion.
Serve as the primary technical contact for infrastructure architects, storage and platform engineering leaders, and technology executives at client organizations.
Lead technical components of complex sales pursuits including solution design, sizing, RFI and RFP responses, proofs of concept, lab evaluations, and competitive evaluations.
Guide customers in designing storage and data layers for large-scale AI infrastructure, including GPU cluster storage, inference and cache offload, and governed analytics pipelines.
Execute technical motions around Kubernetes, OpenShift data services, virtualization transitions, NVMe over TCP, object storage, and cyber resilience.
Coordinate product specialists, professional services, and partner engineers throughout pursuit cycles to maintain alignment and accountability.
Provide product management with requirements and evidence-based input from the most demanding financial institutions to inform roadmap priorities.

Requirements

Minimum ten years of enterprise infrastructure experience, with at least five years in customer-facing presales, solutions architecture, or field engineering roles.
Direct experience working with large financial services institutions is strongly expected.
Hands-on expertise with enterprise block, file, and object storage, data protection, replication, and production performance characteristics.
Working knowledge of virtualization, Kubernetes and container platforms including OpenShift, storage networking technologies (Ethernet, NVMe over TCP, RDMA, Fibre Channel), and at least one major public cloud platform.
Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
Proven track record winning technical evaluations against established vendors and building customer-defensible displacement cases.
Familiarity with analytics, lakehouse platforms, data governance, and data discovery strongly preferred; exposure to GPU infrastructure, AI workloads, and frameworks such as vLLM and NVIDIA Dynamo is a plus.

What makes this role worth considering

You will work at the center of critical infrastructure decisions being made by the world’s largest financial institutions, directly influencing how they build AI infrastructure, modernize platforms, and manage regulatory requirements. The role offers visibility with company leadership across sales, product, and engineering, combining deep technical work with strategic account planning and partnership with senior account teams.