Title:  Consulting Solutions Architect

JOB SUMMARY

Our Solutions Architecture team operates as a portfolio-level innovation and strategy function, working on the most complex, visible, and impactful customer engagements across the enterprise. As a Senior Solution Architect, you will act as a technical evangelist and strategist, partnering with enterprise customers on their most critical initiatives. This role is for individuals who are passionate about being in front of customers, shaping vision, influencing executive decision-makers, and driving large, transformational deals.You will work across the entire NetApp portfolio, helping customers design, integrate, and scale modern data platforms across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, spanning block, file, and object storage; cyber resilience and data protection; and performance-intensive AI/HPC workloads. You will translate business imperatives into forward-looking architectures that deliver measurable outcomes.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.
• Exceptional presentation, storytelling, and whiteboarding skills, with the ability to lead technical workshops and executive briefings.
• 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.
• Practical experience with hyperscaler file and object services, data mobility, and replication strategies.
• Comfortable producing reference architectures and integration plans spanning compute, networking, and storage.
• Familiarity with AI/HPC stacks and parallel file systems.