Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Storage Technical Specialist, you will collaborate closely with clients to develop relationships, understand their needs, earn their trust, and show them how IBM's industry leading solutions will solve their problems whilst delivering value to their business.
We are committed to success. In this role, your achievements will drive your career, team, and clients to thrive. A typical day may involve:

• Storage Strategy Creation: Creating client strategies for storage solutions.
• Enhanced Storage Solutions: Defining IBM storage options to improve existing technology.
• Proof of Concept Delivery: Providing proofs of concept and simplifying technical topics for client understanding.
• Complex Storage Deal Closure: Building trust to successfully close complex Storage tech deals.

• Business-Tech Alignment: Experience aligning business goals with tech solutions.
• Experience sizing and configuring DS8k and/or VTS.
• Mainframe Storage experience.
• Experience conducting performance analysis on DS8K.
• Stakeholder Consensus Building: Strong interpersonal and communication skills for achieving consensus among stakeholders.
• Experiential selling skills: ability to roll up your sleeves and help clients build proof of technologies or demos that definitively show a client's compelling reason to act.
• Mainframe Storage Disk Expertise: Our Financial Services Market clients run trillions of dollars worth of transactions through our solutions - this requires top notch attention to detail and deep product expertise.
• Teaming is winning: Our solutions are focused on a clients' needs, but many times have linkage back to development or product management; a Storage Technical Specialist must have the skills to quarterback and lead deep technical discussions.

• Complex mainframe solution architecting and implementation skills: Running the world's banks and insurance has its complexities, having experience navigating this is helpful.
• Sizing tool expertise: the right inputs provide for the best outputs in a solution. Previous experience using IBM StorM ensure accurate client solutions.