NetApp · 6 hours ago
Senior Solutions Architect - Data Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$206K/yr - $266K/yr
8+ years expNetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure Company, and they are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect – Data Infrastructure to act as a technical evangelist and strategist. This role involves partnering with enterprise customers to design, integrate, and scale modern data platforms across various environments, focusing on innovation and complex architectures.
Cloud ComputingData ManagementData StorageInformation Technology
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Familiarity with AI/HPC stacks and parallel file systems
Benefits
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Retirement or Pension Plans
Paid Time Off
Various Leave options
Employee stock purchase plan
Restricted stocks (RSU’s)
Volunteer time off
Employee Assistance Program
Fitness, and mental health resources
Company
NetApp
NetApp specializes in data storage, data infrastructure, and data management solutions.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (189)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.25BKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2025-03-12Post Ipo Debt· $1.25B
1995-11-21IPO
1994-01-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
George Kurian
Chief Executive Officer
Ben Bromhead
CTO
Recent News
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