Senior Data Solutions Architect – Pre-Sales

NetApp; United States; Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

NetApp, in partnership with DataPelago, seeks a Solution Architect to guide customers through pre-sales and early-adoption phases. You will identify workloads, design potential solutions, lead hands-on evaluations, and translate requirements back to DataPelago engineering and product teams.

This role blends deep data-architecture expertise with startup agility, shaping technical practices and field engagement models for DataPelago within NetApp.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of overall experience.
• Strong technical experience in databases, data processing, analytics platforms, cloud architecture, or a related area.
• Hands-on experience with distributed data-processing technologies such as Apache Spark, Flink, Trino, Hadoop, or similar frameworks.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience analyzing workloads and troubleshooting distributed data-processing environments.
• Familiarity with data lakes, lakehouse, cloud object storage, and major cloud providers.

Responsibilities

• Partner with DataPelago and NetApp Account Executives to identify and qualify technically compelling customer opportunities.
• Participate in early customer conversations initiated by NetApp sellers and translate initial interest into structured technical discovery.
• Understand customers' architectures, performance bottlenecks, and desired outcomes.
• Design and communicate solution approaches using DataPelago technology.
• Develop and deliver technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and PoC plans.
• Work hands-on with customers during technical evaluations and help remove barriers to adoption.
• Translate complex product capabilities into clear technical and business value.
• Collaborate with DataPelago engineering and product teams to address customer requirements and provide field feedback.
• Create reusable solution patterns and evaluation methodologies.
• Support early production deployments where continuity between pre-sales discovery and customer implementation is important.

Skills

Distributed data processing

SQL

Python

Cloud architecture

Databases

Communication skills

Tools

Apache Spark

Flink

Trino

Hadoop

Job description

NetApp, in partnership with DataPelago, seeks a Solution Architect to guide customers through pre-sales and early-adoption phases. You will identify workloads, design potential solutions, lead hands-on evaluations, and translate requirements back to DataPelago engineering and product teams.

This role blends deep data-architecture expertise with startup agility, shaping technical practices and field engagement models for DataPelago within NetApp.