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Sales Client Success Engineer - Data Platform - Business Automation Professional

IBM, Sioux Falls, SD, United States


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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Design Client Solutions:

Design viable client solutions by leveraging current product capabilities, removing technical inhibitors to sales opportunities, and creating technical proof points through technical accelerators such as demonstrations, POTs, POCs, workshops, solution design, and MVPs.

Drive Customer Value:

Activate entitlements, find sponsors, conduct use‑case workshops, and establish measurable business outcomes with client sponsors and stakeholders.

Develop Success Plans:

Develop a success plan that describes deployment roadmaps, milestones, and outcomes with client sponsors and stakeholders, and deeply understand clients’ main challenges to become a trusted guide for their modernization and adoption of IBM’s technology portfolio.

Deliver Technical Proof Points:

Create and deliver technical proof points through technical accelerators to demonstrate the value of IBM products and solutions.

Collaborate with Clients:

Work closely with clients to understand their needs, provide technical expertise, and drive adoption and expansion of IBM products.

Education Requirements

Required: High School Diploma/GED

Preferred: Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Technical Solution Design:

Experience with designing viable client solutions by leveraging current product capabilities, including creating technical proof points through technical accelerators such as demonstrations, POTs, POCs, workshops, solution design, and MVPs.

Product Capability Expertise:

Experience in leveraging current product capabilities to remove technical inhibitors to sales opportunities and drive adoption and expansion of products.

Technical Accelerator Development:

Experience with creating and delivering technical proof points through technical accelerators to demonstrate the value of products and solutions.

Client Solution Deployment:

Experience in developing deployment roadmaps, milestones, and outcomes with client sponsors and stakeholders to drive customer value.

Technical Portfolio Understanding:

Experience with understanding clients’ main challenges and becoming a trusted guide for their modernization and adoption of technology portfolios.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Serve as the technical authority for IBM’s Business Automation Portfolio—including Cognos Analytics, Planning Analytics, Business Analytics, Process Mining, Workflow Automation, Filenet, Decision Management, RPA, and Cloud Pack for Business Automation—designing architectures that solve complex hybrid and multi‑cloud data challenges.

Partner with sellers and account teams to lead technical discovery, solution design, and translating business outcomes into technology solutions using IBM offerings.

Own the process from sale to success, ensuring solution designs transition cleanly into implementation, adoption, and long‑term value realization.

Design and deliver technical enablement for clients through demonstrations, POCs, hands‑on workshops, and architecture reviews, showcasing real‑world use cases around Business Automation.

Apply deep experience with business automation patterns to guide customers in understanding the acceleration these tools can provide in their IT architecture.

Influence product adoption and roadmap alignment by bringing field feedback to IBM product teams, contributing to best practices, reference architectures, and accelerators that improve client outcomes across the Data & AI portfolio.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits including medical, prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well‑being.

Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long‑term disability coverage, and performance‑based salary incentive programs.

Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave, and other Paid Care Leave programs.

Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI‑driven learning platform for skills growth and industry‑recognized certifications.

Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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