Senior Presales Solutions Engineer, SLED

The role

This person will lead strategic technical engagements for State, Local, and Higher Education (SLED) clients across North America. They will serve as a principal technical advisor to government and higher education executives to design connectivity and modernization strategies.

What you will do

• Lead architectural design of end-to-end integration strategies for state/local agencies and university systems.
• Architect solutions adhering to public sector compliance and security frameworks.
• Direct technical evaluation strategy for formal solicitations like RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs.
• Partner with Enterprise SLED Account Executives to navigate public sector buying committees.
• Lead Proof of Value evaluations within prospect environments.
• Design connectivity bridging core public systems of record with modern cloud platforms.
• Coordinate internal domain specialists and partner solution architects for technical pursuits.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of customer-facing presales solutions engineering or technical consulting experience.
• Proven success supporting complex State, Local, or Higher Education pursuits.
• Deep familiarity with public sector procurement rhythms and fiscal-year budget cycles.
• Hands-on mastery of enterprise integration patterns, web services (REST/SOAP/GraphQL), asynchronous message queuing, and secure data movement.
• Ability to communicate from deep architectural sessions to strategic briefings with Agency Directors and University Boards.
• Proven experience navigating zero-inbound firewall configurations, reverse proxy designs, DMZ edge gateways, and hybrid runtime placement.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience integrating public sector ecosystems including Higher Ed SIS/LMS or State/Local ERPs.
• Active or prior public sector security credentials, clearance exposure, or industry certifications (StateRAMP/FedRAMP familiarity, AWS/Azure Certified Cloud Architect, CISSP, TOGAF).
• Experience extending iPaaS pursuits into API Gateway governance, Master Data Management, and secure retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI workflows.

Benefits

• Non-commissioned roles may be eligible for an annual performance bonus.

About the company

Boomi is a data activation company for AI that powers the agentic enterprise. The Boomi Enterprise Platform delivers infrastructure enabling organizations to drive agentic transformation and harness the power of AI.