Solution Engineer Paris

The Role

Neo4j is the world’s leading graph database and our Solution Engineering team help customers realize its value every day. We work with customers across industries, building solutions using Neo4j and related technologies. The responsibilities of a Solution Engineer include understanding prospective customers’ needs, creating architecture including graph database technology, guiding the sales process, demonstrating Neo4j, white‑boarding solution architectures, engaging technical decision makers, and positioning Neo4j within the customer’s environment. In addition, a Solution Engineer should understand other architectural components such as Big Data platforms, NoSQL stores, relational databases, caching, messaging, and middleware services within a modern data architecture.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and contribute to all phases of Neo4j Pre‑Sales projects.
• Help persuade prospective users of the benefits and advantages of graph database technology.
• Position Neo4j technology within the customer’s environment and architecture.
• Discuss solution architectures with customers to address their technical requirements.
• Design and build prototype solutions that demonstrate required functionality with Neo4j.
• Prepare solution proposals for customer engineering and management teams that address overall project goals.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years in a Solution, Pre‑Sales or Professional Services organization.
• Excellent understanding and experience with database technologies and data modelling concepts, ideally with NoSQL stores.
• Architecture skills mapping business to technical requirements and understanding multiple components to build a solution.
• Software engineering experience.
• Familiarity with at least one programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript).
• Ability to engage and interact with engineers in an advisory role.
• Comfortable and quick learning new technologies as needed.
• Passionate about solving technical problems.
• Capable of educating and training small groups.
• Strong understanding of the sales process.
• Proactive approach to keeping the technical aspects of a sales process on track.
• Industry vertical experience in one of: Financial Services, Retail, Government, Security or Pharmaceutical, Supply Chain, Manufacturing.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, self‑directed, and remotely in a cross‑functional organization.
• Willingness to travel.

Nice to Have

• Graph DB related experience (Neo4j or other Property Graph or RDF platforms).
• Data Science, AI/ML, data integration: ETL, virtualization, federation.
• BI and data visualization (Tableau, Qlik, viz libraries such as D3, viz.js, Linkurious).

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career‑defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.