Principal Solutions Engineer (Pre-Sales) – Control-M / Workload Automation
Job Description
Principal Pre-Sales Engineer – Control-M Location: Singapore Employment Type: Permanent, Direct Hire Travel Requirement: Up to 10% Annual Base Salary: SGD 145,500–242,500, depending on experience and qualifications Additional Compensation: Variable incentive plan and employee benefits About the Opportunity Our client is a leading global enterprise software company supporting many of the world’s largest organisations. They are seeking a Principal Pre-Sales Engineer to support high-value, transformational opportunities across Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore, you will work with enterprise and public-sector customers, regional sales teams, and technical specialists to design and communicate solutions involving Control-M. Control-M is an enterprise application and data workflow orchestration platform used to schedule, automate, integrate, monitor, and manage workflows across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Key Responsibilities
- Partner with sales teams to understand complex customer requirements and develop solutions that deliver measurable business and technical value.
- Conduct consultative discovery sessions with customer stakeholders across business, operations, application, infrastructure, and technology teams.
- Assess and document the customer’s current environment, architecture, workflows, operational challenges, and relevant performance metrics.
- Help customers establish a compelling case for change by identifying automation, reliability, efficiency, governance, and scalability improvements.
- Design solution architectures using Control-M for application workflows, batch processing, data pipelines, file transfers, and system integrations.
- Deliver solution workshops, presentations, product demonstrations, technical deep dives, and proofs of value.
- Lead the technical response to Requests for Information and Requests for Proposals.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Address technical questions relating to integration, security, scalability, cloud adoption, implementation, and solution feasibility.
- Collaborate with sales, product, professional services, partners, and regional technical teams throughout the sales cycle.
- Maintain awareness of customers’ enterprise architecture, emerging technologies, and digital-transformation priorities.
- Contribute to regional and global initiatives, reusable demonstrations, solution assets, and sales-engineering best practices.
Mandatory Requirements
- At least seven years of experience in enterprise software pre-sales, sales engineering, solution consulting, solution architecture, or a closely related customer-facing technical role.
- Strong subject-matter expertise in the technical implementation and business use of BMC Control-M or a comparable enterprise workload automation and orchestration platform.
- Practical understanding of enterprise job scheduling, batch automation, application workflows, data pipelines, managed file transfer, and operational monitoring.
- Ability to understand broad enterprise architectures and assess whether proposed integrations and solutions are technically feasible.
- Proven experience designing and delivering customer presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and proofs of concept or value.
- Experience supporting complex enterprise software sales cycles and responding to RFPs.
- Strong understanding of how enterprise technology sales and pre-sales teams operate.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong commercial awareness, professionalism, integrity, and stakeholder-management ability.
- Singapore citizenship is required because a significant proportion of the role supports Singapore public-sector customers.
Good-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience with comparable workload automation platforms, such as AutoSys, IBM Workload Scheduler, Stonebranch, Redwood, ActiveBatch, or similar solutions.
- Experience integrating workflow automation platforms with SAP, cloud services, data platforms, DevOps tools, or enterprise applications.
- Formal sales methodology training, such as MEDDIC, Miller Heiman, Sandler, or Solution Selling.
- AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or a higher-level AWS certification.
- Scaled Agile Framework certification or practical experience working in scaled agile environments.
- SAP professional certification or experience supporting SAP-related workload automation.
- Existing Singapore Government security clearance, such as G50.
- Experience supporting customers in government, banking, financial services, telecommunications, or other highly regulated industries.
Suitable Candidate Backgrounds Candidates may currently hold titles such as:
- Principal Sales Engineer
- Principal Pre-Sales Consultant
- Senior Solutions Consultant
- Senior Solution Engineer
- Control-M Consultant or Architect
- Workload Automation Architect
- Enterprise Automation Consultant
- Technical Pre-Sales Architect
- Application and Data Workflow Automation Specialist
Why Consider This Role?
- Work on strategic, high-visibility enterprise opportunities across Southeast Asia.
- Engage with major enterprise and public-sector organisations.
- Represent a recognised enterprise workflow orchestration platform.
- Influence customer automation, cloud, application, and data-workflow strategies.
- Collaborate with experienced regional and global sales-engineering teams.
- Participate in international projects and professional-development opportunities.
Important Note Direct Control-M expertise is strongly preferred. Applicants with deep experience in an equivalent enterprise workload automation platform may also be considered if they can demonstrate strong solution-consulting, architecture, presentation, and customer-facing pre-sales capabilities. Interested applicants should submit an updated CV highlighting:
- Control-M or comparable workload automation experience
- Enterprise pre-sales and solution-consulting experience
- Demonstrations, workshops, RFPs, and proofs of value delivered
- Relevant application, data, cloud, SAP, and integration projects
- Customer industries and geographic markets supported
- Relevant certifications and government security clearance, if applicable
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