Subject Matter Expert Alteryx

Job Description Alteryx SME (Presales, Training & Delivery)

Role Type: Subject Matter Expert Alteryx (Designer & Server)

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 10 - 15 years overall, with strong hands-on experience in Alteryx

Role Overview

We are looking for an Alteryx Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead customer-facing demos, conduct trainings, participate in discovery workshops, estimate efforts, and deliver end-to-end Alteryx solutions for our clients. The role combines presales, solution consulting, and technical delivery, with a strong focus on Alteryx Designer and Alteryx Server, along with Python, SQL and PySpark for advanced analytics and automation.

Key Responsibilities :

Presales & Customer Engagement

• Conduct impactful Alteryx product demos and solution walkthroughs for prospects and customers.
• Participate in discovery calls/workshops to understand client requirements, data landscape, and business objectives.
• Translate business use cases into Alteryx-based solution approaches and high-level architectures.
• Prepare effort estimates, solution sizing, and support proposal/RFP responses in collaboration with sales and delivery teams.
• Build and showcase PoCs/accelerators to demonstrate value and feasibility.

Training & Enablement

• Design and deliver Alteryx Designer and Alteryx Server trainings (foundation to advanced) for customers and internal teams.
• Create training content, Provide training, hands-on exercises, and best-practice guides.
• Mentor junior team members on Alteryx, ETL concepts, and solution design.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Design, build, and optimize Alteryx workflows, macros, analytic apps and end-to-end data pipelines.
• Implement Alteryx Server-based solutions including scheduling, user/workflow management, and governance.
• Integrate Alteryx with databases (SQL, cloud data platforms, HDFS, OneDrive, etc.) and BI tools (Tableau / Power BI).
• Use Python, SQL and PySpark for advanced data preparation, automation and analytics within or alongside Alteryx.
• Support performance tuning, error handling, logging, and operationalization of workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data engineers, BI developers, data scientists, domain SMEs) to deliver projects on time and with high quality.

Client Success & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with clients to ensure adoption, usage, and value realization from Alteryx solutions.
• Document solutions, create reusable components, and contribute to internal accelerators and best-practice repositories.
• Stay updated on latest Alteryx features, certifications, and complementary technologies.

Required Skills & Experience :

• Strong hands-on expertise in Alteryx Designer: data preparation, blending, parsing, transformation, reporting, macros, analytic apps, In-DB tools, and automation.
• Solid Alteryx Server experience: installation, configuration, user and workflow management, scheduling, data connections, and administration.
• Proven experience in building production-grade ETL/ELT workflows and automated reporting solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Python (for data cleaning, scripting, and analytics), SQL, and PySpark.
• Good understanding of data warehousing concepts, data modeling basics, and performance optimization.
• Experience integrating Alteryx with relational databases, cloud platforms, and BI tools (Tableau/Power BI preferred).
• Excellent communication skills with ability to interact with business stakeholders, conduct demos, and lead trainings.
• Prior experience in customer-facing / presales / solution consulting roles is a strong plus.
• Ability to independently estimate efforts, plan deliveries, and own end-to-end solution outcomes.

Certifications & Education (Must / Preferred)

Must Have:

• Alteryx Server Certification (Admin / Implementation at least one, preferably both).
• Strong Alteryx Designer certification track (e.g., Core / Advanced) highly preferred.
• Preferred:
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related field.
• Postgraduate or professional education in Data Science / Analytics is an added advantage.

Personality & Work Style

• Customer-centric mindset with strong ownership and accountability.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, project-driven environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to handle complex data scenarios.
• Passion for teaching, mentoring, and enabling others on the Alteryx platform.