Sr. Systems (Presales) Engineer, FSI - Strategics

Role overview Serve as a technical advisor for major financial services customers across the UK and wider Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. You will guide complex presales engagements from discovery through technical validation and business justification, connecting customer priorities with resilient enterprise data and infrastructure architectures.

Responsibilities - Build advisory relationships with customer executives, architects, platform teams, and operational stakeholders. - Lead technical sales work from problem discovery and solution design through demonstrations or proofs of concept and deal support. - Translate business and risk needs into architectures for infrastructure modernization, cyber recovery, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, and AI workloads. - Work with account leaders, technical specialists, value teams, and partners to advance complex opportunities. - Contribute to multi-year account plans that reflect regulatory, security, and operational requirements. - Unblock technical issues and provide structure to complex customer pursuits.

Requirements - Systems engineering or solutions architecture experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, data platforms, or hybrid cloud. - Experience working with large, strategic accounts and communicating credibly with both technical teams and senior executives. - Understanding of financial services needs, including resilience, cybersecurity, compliance, and risk. - Consultative communication skills, including the ability to connect technical choices to business value and return on investment. - Ability to influence across global, cross-functional teams.

Nice to have Exposure to Kubernetes, containerized stateful workloads, cyber resilience, data protection, analytics, or AI workloads is useful. Experience with long, high-value enterprise sales cycles is also a plus.

Benefits and work setup This is a UK-based, field-oriented remote role with frequent travel to customer sites across the UK and EMEA. Compensation includes base pay, performance incentives, equity, and health and wellness benefits. Flexible time off and wellness resources are also described.