Senior Solutions Architect - Data Infrastructure

• Own Technical Win Plans. Partner with enterprise sales and field leadership on priority opportunities. Lead discovery, shape solution strategy, differentiate competitively, and drive the technical win for large, complex deals
• Design End-to-End Architectures. Create scalable, resilient, and future-ready architectures across on-prem, cloud-adjacent, and public cloud environments, aligned to customer requirements for performance, availability, security, and total cost of ownership
• Act as a Portfolio Evangelist. Represent NetApp’s full data infrastructure vision to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders, connecting portfolio capabilities to real-world customer outcomes
• Build Trusted Executive Relationships. Develop and sustain deep relationships with customer technical and business leaders, partners, and alliances. Drive engagement across executive, architecture, and engineering communities
• Generate Pipeline with Marketing. Lead webinars, workshops, and Executive Briefing Center sessions
• contribute to blogs and video content
• present at NetApp INSIGHT
• and support regional demand-generation events to open new workloads and buying centers
• Mentor and Upskill the Field. Coach Solutions Engineers and partner technical teams on solution domains, reference architectures, and repeatable best practices
• Stay Ahead of the Market. Track industry trends, competitive dynamics, and portfolio evolution to provide timely guidance to customers, sales leadership, and field teams

• 8+ years in solution architecture, systems engineering, or enterprise pre-sales for storage or data infrastructure platforms, with a strong track record of driving technical wins and customer outcomes
• Executive Presence & Communication. Exceptional presentation, storytelling, and whiteboarding skills, with the ability to lead technical workshops and executive briefings
• Technical Depth. Expertise across NFS, SMB, iSCSI, FC, NVMe, and S3
• experience with virtualization and container platforms (e.g., VMware, Kubernetes)
• and strong understanding of security, cyber resilience, and AI-adjacent technologies
• Hybrid Cloud Knowledge. Practical experience with hyperscaler file and object services, data mobility, and replication strategies
• Solution Design Skills. Comfortable producing reference architectures and integration plans spanning compute, networking, and storage

Familiarity with AI/HPC stacks and parallel file systems

• Volunteer time off
• 40 hours of paid volunteer time each year
• Well-being
• Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best
• Time away
• Paid time off for vacation and to recharge
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Retirement or Pension Plans
• Paid Time Off
• various Leave options
• employee stock purchase plan
• and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s)