Solutions Engineer (Access)

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We are currently looking for a highly motivated Solutions Engineer (Access) in Italy. In this position, you will be responsible for the technical pre-sales support to Adtran’s Sales Team.

The Solutions Engineer will drive the technical responses on network design solutions and quotations for customer specific projects or RfX (Request for Information, Proposal or Quotation).

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide pre-sales support for Tier-1 / Tier-2 carrier customer activities in Italy
• Managing all technical pre-sales support of the entire Adtran solution portfolio on  Access Technologies (GPON, XGS-PON, Active Ethernet) and In-Home Technologies (such as Residential Gateways, WiFi Mesh) for selected key-customers
• Ownership of the technical strategy based on customer’s needs and commercial requirements
• Responsible for questions related to Statements of Compliances (SOC), network designs and bills of materials
• Support the Key Account Management for evaluation and responsible for the preparation of the technical responses to customer requirements
• Customer presentations in cooperation with Account Management
• Support to Demos, PoC and Validation activities
• Collect comprehensive feedback to headquarter departments concerning market requirements and market trends
• Provide Partner enabling on Adtran solutions

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Extensive experience in communication business
• In-depth knowledge of communication networks and customer applications, in particular on  Access Technologies (GPON, XGS-PON, Active Ethernet) and In-Home Technologies. Experience in developing within RESTCONF and NETCONF / YANG environments would be appreciated.
• Technical degree (or similar) in telecommunications, electronics or physics
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Creative, innovative, open minded and independent working style
• Fluent in both oral and written Italian and English.
• Ability to work in a cross-site, cross-cultural and multi-lingual team.
• Daily working experience of Microsoft Office applications: Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook

Scope of employment

• Fulltime / Permanent
• Office based (Rome), hybrid working or remote working
• Flexibility to travel (approx. 25%)

Primary location of job

• Italy

Compensation

• Sales compensation scheme: Base salary + Commission

Applications

• Applications should be sent in English only