Manager of Data Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions

NetApp, Inc.; Morrisville, San Jose (NC, CA); Hybrid; USD 287,000 - 372,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits

Job summary

NetApp, Inc. is seeking a United States-based Manager for Solutions Architects to lead a high-performing pre-sales team focused on Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) and NetApp Data Services.

The team aids Enterprise and Strategic accounts by uncovering use cases, assessing current-state infrastructure, shaping strategies, and accelerating adoption of NetApp’s data solutions. The ideal candidate excels in people leadership, customer-facing strategy, and translating complex infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, with 12+ years overall experience including 5 years of leadership experience.
• 8-10 years of relevant technical, field, pre-sales, architecture, or customer-facing infrastructure experience.
• Relevant certifications or enablement in enterprise architecture, cloud, storage, security, observability, data services, SaaS operations, or NetApp technologies are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead team operating rhythms, priorities, opportunity hygiene, forecasting discipline, technical enablement, and skills development.
• Partner with Sales Specialists, account teams, and Customer Success to identify, qualify, advance, and expand strategic customer opportunities.
• Align with NetApp account leadership and partner resources to drive DII and NetApp Data Services adoption and measurable customer outcomes.
• Provide field-based insight and product feedback to shape roadmap priorities, messaging, enablement, and strategy.
• Maintain a broad view of customer needs, competitive dynamics, and industry trends through continuous learning and growth mindset.

Skills

Leadership

Pre-sales

Solution architecture

Customer-facing

Enterprise accounts

Observability

Data services

Hybrid data infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Proxmox

Nutanix Acropolis/AHV

NetApp technologies

Job description

NetApp, Inc. is seeking a United States-based Manager for Solutions Architects to lead a high-performing pre-sales team focused on Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) and NetApp Data Services.

The team aids Enterprise and Strategic accounts by uncovering use cases, assessing current-state infrastructure, shaping strategies, and accelerating adoption of NetApp’s data solutions. The ideal candidate excels in people leadership, customer-facing strategy, and translating complex infrastructure