Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales & Strategy

Zadara; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zadara is seeking a Sr. Solution Architect to support Europe Sales POD, driving cloud solutions with scalability, security, and efficiency. You will lead pre-sales and post-sales engagements, manage relationships, and collaborate with sales, engineering and marketing to accelerate adoption.

You will partner with teams to develop compelling technical content, participate in go-to-market strategies and mentor new team members, helping shape the customer journey and product feedback.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, or cloud consulting.
• 5-10 years in IT including software development, sysadmin or systems engineering.
• Able to think strategically about business, product and tech challenges.
• Proven consultative technical sales or professional services success.
• Customer-facing experience is essential.
• Strong knowledge of SAN/NAS technologies.
• Ability to build relationships with all levels in an organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; collaborates across teams.
• Advanced experience with data center networks and software architectures.
• Hands-on experience with VMware and/or AWS technologies; knowledge of workloads.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers, partners and MSPs to understand needs and translate into scalable cloud solutions.
• Design, document, build and present cloud architectures aligned with best practices.
• Serve as technical lead in customer engagements, supporting sales with PoCs and demos.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams on innovative solutions addressing pain points.
• Educate and evangelize Zadara services at events, training and webinars.

Skills

Cloud solution architecture

Pre-sales engineering

Customer-facing experience

VMware

AWS

SQL/Oracle/SharePoint workloads

Data Center networks

Kubernetes

Docker

Tools

VMware

AWS

Job description

Zadara is seeking a Sr. Solution Architect to support Europe Sales POD, driving cloud solutions with scalability, security, and efficiency. You will lead pre-sales and post-sales engagements, manage relationships, and collaborate with sales, engineering and marketing to accelerate adoption.

You will partner with teams to develop compelling technical content, participate in go-to-market strategies and mentor new team members, helping shape the customer journey and product feedback.