Heroku Technical Architect

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Sales

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**Description**:
The role of a Heroku Technical Architect is to work with our sales teams and customers to:

- Understand a customer's enterprise architecture landscape and/or technical business requirements through technical discovery
- Partner with customers to develop a vision for their future on the Heroku platform
- Educate customers on various technical aspects of the Heroku platform, how other technologies integrate and interact with the Heroku platform, and how Heroku products can positively impact their business goals
- Scale the role through external and internal education and enablement efforts
- Lead hands-on technical workshops and education sessions including webcasts & presentations.Attain quarterly and annual objectives such as deal contributions, field enablement and closed revenue

Your Impact:

- Having fun and getting out of your comfort zone technically on a daily basis. One day might involve React Native, Kafka, ETL and machine learning models and everything in between.
- Constantly learning, absorbing new information daily, and having a keen focus on how to best discuss complex, technical problems with customers.
- Part of a highly motivated sales team who are fanatical about our customers’ success
- Comfortable working with clients at all levels - it is just as important to work with the front line as the CIO and CTO and from startups to enterprise customers
- Building demos showcasing everything from consumer mobile apps to backend microservices to event-driven architectures that will show off the power of the Heroku platformAdding to our broader team's point of view and base of knowledge and understanding

Minimum Qualifications:

- Evidence of strong impact in customer-facing work is near-mandatory, but can come from a variety of places
- Knowledge of AWS, GCP, Azure and other cloud platforms required
- Previous experience as a solution/sales engineer or equivalent, preferably in the CRM space is a plus
- Experience with cloud, SaaS, PaaS, aPaaS and IaaS concepts and technologies
- Strong development skills with a Heroku language like Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Node, Go, Scala, Node.js is ideal
- Past work experience with databases, integrations, coding, and/or other similar software technologies
- Ability to work as part of a team to solve technical problems in varied political environments
- Past experience with retail and consumer goods customers a bonus
- Some domestic travel is required
- English and French language skills

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