Senior Sales Engineer (Ontario Region)

Location: Canada_Remote, Canada

Dans des marchés en rapide évolution, les clients à travers le monde font confiance à Thales. Thales est une entreprise où les personnes les plus brillantes du monde entier se regroupent pour mettre en commun leurs idées et ainsi s’inspirer mutuellement. Dans tous les secteurs où œuvre Thales, notamment l’aérospatiale, le transport, la défense, la sécurité et l’espace, nos équipes d’architectes conçoivent des solutions innovantes qui rendent demain possible dès aujourd’hui.

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Remote Greater Toronto Area

Thales is hiring an experience Senior Sales Engineer provides guidance and assistance to the sales account teams in building solutions to specific customer data protection challenges. As consultative expert in Thales Data Protection solutions, you will be qualifying and gathering requirements, in order to demonstrate, architect and then prove the technical value of Thales data protection solutions against competitive alternatives solutions. You are a self-starter who builds and maintains executive technical relationships to be a trusted advisor maximizing Thales opportunities with a customer.

This position will require successfully completing a post-offer background check. Qualified candidates with criminal history will be considered and are not automatically disqualified, consistent with applicable federal law, state law (the California Fair Chance Act), and local ordinances (San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County’s Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers).

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Use consultative selling skills with customers to understand technical requirements, provide solutions using Thales products.

• Prepare and deliver solution Presentations, Demonstrations, Proof of Concepts for Thales Solutions.

• Provide high-level consultation and enablement on company’s products and capabilities to Partners, End-Users and other departments as part of the sales cycle.

• Work closely with Product Management and Business Development to identify, evaluate, and make technical recommendations regarding strategic product enhancements based on market initiatives, new technology, partnerships or customer requirements. Work together with the Customer Success and Technical Support teams to ensure overall customer satisfaction.

• Prepare workflows, answers to Requests for Proposals, Request for Information and project proposals.

• Maintain a high degree of technical awareness of relevant products, competitors, and trends in the marketplace.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical subject (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering) or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of experience pre-sales working experience for an enterprise software, networking or security company

• Ability to position, discuss and counter solution validation, using objection-handling skills

• Experience with HSM: familiarity with PKI and digital certification with HSM integration, hands-on experience in enterprise code signing, including workflows/process and leveraging HSMs and implementing and managing TDE database encryption with an HSM and External Key Managers

• Experience implementing and managing TDE database encryption , storage encryption with external key managers using KMIP protocol

• App-Level Encryption or Tokenization using Rest APIs, and languages such as C++, Java, python, etc

• Networking and Security infrastructure experience e.g. firewalls, IPS/IDS, VPN, Networking (on-prem, hybrid, cloud), DLPs, CASB, DevOps/DevSecOps specially in Secrets Management, CI/CD, Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience securing data in the cloud using Public Cloud Native security solutions (Key Managers, Encryption services, etc)

• Up to 40% Travel withing North America (US and Canada)

The anticipated Total Target Compensation (TTC), inclusive of annual salary and bonus eligibility, for this role is based on $157,040.00 – $245,375.00 CAD Annual range. The Company reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s status protected by local, provincial, and federal laws.​

If you’re excited about working with Thales, but not meeting the requirements for this position, we encourage you to join our Talent Community! https://careers.thalesgroup.com/global/en/jointalentcommunity. You can upload your CV and our recruiters can get in touch with any new opportunities that may be of interest to you.

What We Offer

Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following: 

•Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.

• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.

•Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave. 

•Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.

•Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.

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Thales est un employeur offrant l’égalité des chances qui valorise la diversité et l’inclusion sur le lieu de travail. Thales s’engage à mettre en place des mesures d’adaptation tout au long du processus de recrutement. Les candidats sélectionnés pour une entrevue et ayant besoin de mesures d’adaptation sont priés de le faire savoir lors de l’invitation à l’entrevue; notre équipe travaillera volontiers avec chaque candidat pour répondre à ses besoins particuliers. Tous les renseignements relatifs aux mesures d’adaptation seront traités d’une manière confidentielle et utilisés uniquement dans le but d’offrir une expérience candidat adaptée.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.