At a Glance
- Tasks: Empower partners with technical expertise and innovative solutions in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join NetApp, a leader in intelligent data infrastructure and innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and a commitment to diversity.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enabling partners to excel with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 5 years in enterprise infrastructure and experience with channel partners required.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.
The Partner Solutions Architect (PSA) at NetApp is a senior technical enablement resource aligned to a defined set of strategic Channel Partners within the UKI region. This role is focused on developing, enabling, and influencing partner technical communities, ensuring partners are equipped to lead with NetApp solutions independently. The role partners closely with Partner Managers and partner technical leadership to build NetApp mindshare, technical competency, and long-term partner capability across the NetApp portfolio. Success in this role is driven by partner engagement, technical readiness, and alignment to partner goals, rather than direct sales execution.
Job Requirements
- Partner Enablement & Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical enablement resource for assigned Channel partners within the UKI region. Build a solution/Bill of Materials to enable a Partner to quote our technology stack. Develop partner technical capability so partners can independently conduct technical discovery, solution positioning, and sales activities. Build and maintain strong relationships with senior partner technical leaders, Pre-Sales Managers and partner-facing technical teams. Influence partner technical strategy by aligning NetApp solutions to partner offerings and go-to-market motions.
- Partner Engagement & Programs: Work closely with Partner Managers to plan and deliver technical enablement activities, including partner-focused QBRs, lunch-and-learn sessions, and technical workshops. Design engagements that focus on educating and enabling partner technical teams, in addition to supporting individual deals from a technical lens. Assess partner technical maturity and tailor enablement plans to close capability gaps, and influence Partners’ GTM and portfolio. Provide ongoing compliance checks and where needed train technical Partner teams to ensure ongoing adherence with the Global NetApp Partner compliance program.
- Portfolio & Technical Guidance: Educate partners on where and how NetApp fits within their portfolio and customer use cases. Guide partners on positioning NetApp solutions effectively within their own offerings. Support technical whiteboarding and solution discussions with partners when appropriate. Ensure partners understand the full NetApp portfolio and how to leverage it across infrastructure, data management, and cloud use cases.
Qualifications
- 5 years of recent experience in enterprise infrastructure technologies, including storage, datacentre architecture, networking, and compute.
- 5 years of experience working with and enabling channel partners in a technical capacity, such as Sales Engineer, Channel Sales Engineer, or Solutions Architect supporting the channel.
- Strong understanding of partner ecosystems and how partners position, sell, and support enterprise technology solutions.
- Comfortable operating in a matrixed environment across partner and internal teams.
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
Submitting an Application: To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website.
AI Disclosure: For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection.
Partner Solution Architect employer: NetApp
At NetApp, we empower our employees to innovate and excel in a dynamic work environment that values creativity and collaboration. As a Sales Director - Enterprise, you'll lead a high-performing team while enjoying a culture that celebrates bold thinkers and problem solvers, offering flexibility to balance your professional and personal life. With opportunities for growth and the chance to make a significant impact in the data infrastructure space, NetApp is an exceptional employer for those ready to drive transformation and own every moment.
