Sr. Solution Architect chez Zadara
Zadara · Royaume-Uni · Remote
Your Team & Role
As a member of the Europe Sales POD, the Sr. Solution Architect will ensure success in providing cutting-edge solutions by helping customers leverage cloud solutions for scalability, security, flexibility and efficiency, as well as to accelerate adoption. As part of a nimble and dynamic team, this role incorporates diverse responsibilities including, but not limited to, pre-sales and post-sales engagements, solutions selling, and relationship management.
Your day to day
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Engage with customers, partners and MSPs to understand their business needs and technical requirements, and then translating them into scalable cloud solutions.
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Design, document, build and present cloud architectures that align with industry best practices and customer objectives.
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Serve as the technical lead in customer engagements, supporting sales teams with solution positioning, proof-of-concepts (PoCs), and product demonstrations.
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Partner with engineering and product teams to develop innovative solutions that address customer pain points.
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Educate and evangelize Zadara services to Partners, MSPs and End Users with the Sales Team at events, shows, training, and or webinars (and various other marketing functions).
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Act as the primary trusted advisor and technical point of contact for key customers, building long-term strategic relationships, providing ongoing technical advisory.
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Be the voice of the customer to support and engineering teams, providing product improvement feedback and accelerating the adoption of new features in customer deployments.
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Gather customer feedback to influence product enhancements and service improvements.
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Conduct training, workshops, and generate account-specific content to educate customers on maximizing the benefits of the Zadara ecosystem.
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Monitor and oversee assigned customer cloud environments to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost efficiency.
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Provide recommendations on cloud optimizations, security best practices, and cost-saving strategies.
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Work closely with internal teams to resolve cloud-related issues and maintain a proactive approach to customer cloud health.
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Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, support service, engineering, product management and company management teams.
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Partner with Account teams, Business Development Managers and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue goals.
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Work with sales and marketing teams to develop compelling technical content, including whitepapers, blogs, and case studies.
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Contribute to go-to-market strategies by identifying emerging customer needs and market trends and help with sales campaigns.
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Assist in onboarding and mentoring of members of the Solution Architecture team.
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Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the Zadara solutions architecture and partner solutions architect communities.
Solution Architecture & Pre-Sales Support
Customer Relationship Ownership
Customer Cloud Monitoring & Support
Cross-Team Collaboration
What you bring
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5+ years of experience in cloud solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, or cloud consulting.
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5-10 years of related experience in the IT field, including roles in software development, system administration or system engineering
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Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
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Proven experience in consultative technical sales or professional services with a proven track record of success.
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Proven experience in customer-facing positions.
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Demonstrate firm knowledge and experience of SAN / NAS technologies.
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Ability to gain credibility and build relationships with all levels in an organization, from technical experts to senior executives.
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Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to collaborate effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams.
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Advanced level experience with Data Center networks and network topologies.
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Advanced software architecture skills and experience building complex software systems designs.
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Advanced hands-on, technical experience working VMware and/or AWS technologies.
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Understanding of Application workloads such as SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, Docker, Kubernetes services would be an advantage.
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Understanding of Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions and architectures.
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