Technology Sales Engineer - Databases

Customer Success Engineer

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you'll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.

Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You'll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career.

Join us and be part of a global team that's passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

As a Customer Success Engineer, you'll work closely with clients to develop relationships, understand their needs, earn their trust and show them how IBM's industry leading solutions will solve their problems whilst delivering value to their business.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Client Strategy Design: Creating client strategies for Data & AI infrastructure.
• Solution Definition: Defining IBM Data & AI solutions that enhance technology stacks.
• Educational Support: Providing proof of concepts and simplifying complex topics to educate clients.
• Credibility Building: Establishing credibility and trust to facilitate the closure of intricate Cloud tech deals

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Experience in a Technical Sales or Database related role
• Strong proficiency and understanding of SQL
• Knowledge of databases (DB2, Astra DB, Kafka, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, etc.)
• Experience working with the sales lifecycle and driving customer outcomes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills at all levels of an organization
• Driven and self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to excellence in everything they do
• Ability to build and maintain positive business relationships with peers and clients.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Experience with IBM Data Management solutions (IBM DB2 Family, DataStax, Confluent, Cloudera, Netezza Performance Server, etc.)
• Competitive product experience a plus (Microsoft, Snowflake, AWS and Oracle)
• Data & AI Market Knowledge: Expertise in the Data & AI market to quickly become a trusted client advisor.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.