NetApp

Partner Solution Architect

NetApp
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15 hours ago
Stockholm, Sweden or Windsor, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own technical enablement strategies for assigned partners and build their long-term technical maturity through workshops, bootcamps, labs, onboarding, mentoring, and coaching.
  • Provide architecture guidance, solution validation, design reviews, and technical escalation support for complex partner-led opportunities.
  • Create repeatable solution patterns, reference architectures, best-practice guidance, and reusable technical enablement content.
  • Present at partner conferences, technical communities, distributor events, and industry forums while building technical credibility and thought leadership.
  • Develop partner technical communities, advisory groups, and peer networks across partners, distributors, alliances, and field organizations.
  • Collaborate with sales, channel, marketing, and alliance teams to accelerate partner-led pipeline, portfolio adoption, and solution development.
  • Capture partner and customer feedback and communicate ecosystem insights to influence technical strategy and future solutions.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in technical presales, solution architecture, consulting, partner enablement, or related technical leadership roles.
  • Experience working with channel partners, distributors, system integrators, or alliance partners.
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise IT, cloud, data infrastructure, and solution architecture practices.
  • Experience aligning technical strategy and enablement programs with commercial and business priorities.
  • Experience developing technical capability through coaching, enablement programs, mentoring, or community leadership.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Cisco, NVIDIA, and Commvault.
  • Ability to translate technical differentiation into repeatable partner-led solutions and business outcomes.
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to drive outcomes through collaboration rather than direct authority.
  • Experience in sales, channel, or alliance organizations; building technical communities and enablement programs; and creating technical content is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI infrastructure, cyber resilience, hybrid cloud, or other modern data infrastructure architectures is preferred.
  • Experience working across multiple countries, partner ecosystems, or alliances is preferred.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud

Categories

Solutions Engineering
NetApp

About NetApp

10,000+ employees

NetApp builds data storage and data management software and hardware for enterprises, including ONTAP-powered all-flash arrays and hybrid cloud services that integrate with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It sells systems and subscriptions that support backup, disaster recovery, databases, and container/Kubernetes workloads. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NetApp is a public company listed on NASDAQ.

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