Customer Solutions Engineer/ Sales Engineer

Job Title Customer Solutions Engineer

Department Professional Information Business

Location London or Barcelona

**About us**

For more than 130 years, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including Factiva, Dow Jones Newswires, Risk and Compliance, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, and our text mining and analytics platform Factiva Analytics. Factiva Analytics enables customers and partners to integrate with Dow Jones’ world-class professional information and patented taxonomy, allowing them to interact with it in new and innovative ways which include building their own custom solutions. At Dow Jones we live at the intersection of advanced data capabilities, award-winning journalism and innovative technology to deliver news, tools and financial insight to move markets, inform critical decisions and power top companies and careers. Role Our Customer Solutions Engineers (CSE) are critical technical partners for our customers and sales teams. The CSE will drive the technical integration for Dow Jones’ prospects, customers and partners, who range from cutting-edge startups and incubators to the world’s most respected corporations. In addition to working with customers, the CSE team defines best practices and architecture patterns relevant to customers' needs and incorporates trending technologies and techniques into the proposed solutions. Responsibilities
- Work with Sales, their prospects and customers looking to understand and exploit integration possibilities with Dow Jones data and services. Design solutions and implementation guidance
- Determine technical and business requirements from customers and propose technical solutions in a professional manner and to agreed timeframes
- Demonstrate solutions that meet the customers’ business requirements and address any technical and product questions during the sales cycle.
- Advise and guide prospective customers during their integration of Dow Jones data and services including building and managing proof of concepts
- Share best practices, model designs etc. with prospects and customers for both technical development and in support of customer’s internal approvals processes
- Provide feedback to Dow Jones Product and Technology teams on emerging requirements and themes and customer technology trends.
- Contribute to the team’s portfolio of best practices and processes.
- Stay aware of emerging technologies and techniques that can be beneficial to the role and team.

Skills & Experience Required:

- Professionalism and a customer-first approach
- More than 5 years’ prior work in a customer-facing customer engineering role
- Software development experience using Agile development practices.
- Intermediate knowledge of SQL, Python and NodeJS languages.
- Demonstrated experience building and leading technical product demonstrations that include APIs.
- Business acumen and strategic problem-solving skills to assist with customer requirements
- Experience responding to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field

Highly Desired:

- Experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly BigQuery
- Strong coding skills in any modern programming language.
- Experience working with Cloud services for data ingestion, processing and storage.
- Understanding of Machine Learning techniques, specifically, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text mining.
- Experience and familiarity with our products and lines of business including Factiva, Risk & Compliance, Newswires, etc...

Business Area: Dow Jones - Partnerships & Licensing

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status:
Non-Union role

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

Req ID: 39181