{"id":70785,"title":"Senior Solutions Architect - Storage as a Service (m/f/d)","company":"NetApp Deutschland GmbH","city":null,"region":null,"location":null,"work_model":"hybrid","employment_type":"full_time","employment":["full_time"],"roles":["architecture"],"visa":"not_mentioned","relocation":"not_mentioned","posted_at":"2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00","tools":[],"seniority":"senior","years_experience_min":null,"german_requirement":"required","german_level":"unspecified","english_requirement":"required","english_level":"unspecified","team_language":"unknown","confidence":0.9,"method":"rules","language_badge":"German required","language_evidence":"Fluency in German and English","requirements_snippet":"We value skills and mindset over a specific career path. Here's what will set you up for success: - Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise storage, data management, or hybrid cloud solutions - Strong understanding …","url":"https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/jobdetail/10001-1003569677-S","source":"bundesagentur","agency":null,"description_text":"## Job Summary\n\nAt NetApp, we believe data is the foundation of innovation. As a leader in Intelligent Data Infrastructure, we help organizations manage, protect, and unlock the value of their data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Our Storage as a Service offerings empower enterprises to consume modern infrastructure flexibly, scalably, and on their own terms.\n\nWe're looking for a **Senior Solutions Architect – Storage as a Service** to join our team. If you're passionate about translating complex technology into real business value and thrive at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and customer partnership — we'd love to hear from you.\n\n## What You'll Do\n\n- **Drive business growth** by identifying and developing strategic Storage as a Service opportunities alongside account and sales teams\n- **Design end-to-end solutions** — leading discovery workshops, architecture sessions, and technical assessments for enterprise customers\n- **Build compelling business cases** and solution concepts that connect technical outcomes to measurable business value\n- **Act as a trusted advisor** to architects, technical decision-makers, and IT leaders throughout complex sales cycles\n- **Champion thought leadership** by representing NetApp at customer events, executive briefings, webinars, and industry forums\n- **Collaborate cross-functionally** with product management, marketing, and global solution teams to translate customer needs into innovative offerings\n- **Enable and coach** internal teams, partners, and customers on best practices, architecture approaches, and market trends\n- **Support competitive differentiation** by serving as a subject matter expert on consumption and as-a-service models\n\n## What You Bring\n\nWe value skills and mindset over a specific career path. Here's what will set you up for success:\n\n- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise storage, data management, or hybrid cloud solutions\n- Strong understanding of **consumption, subscription, or as-a-service business models**\n- Ability to engage confidently with technical and executive stakeholders, bridging technology and business strategy\n- Experience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles, from initial engagement through close\n- Excellent communication and presentation skills — you make the complex feel clear\n- A growth mindset — you're curious, collaborative, and energized by continuous learning\n- Fluency in German and English\n- Willingness to travel regularly within Germany\n- Background in managed services, service providers, or cloud platforms is a plus.\n- Familiarity with sectors such as telco, financial services, manufacturing, or public sector is a plus.\n- Relevant certifications in infrastructure, cloud, or storage technologies is a plus.","responsibilities_text":"- **Drive business growth** by identifying and developing strategic Storage as a Service opportunities alongside account and sales teams\n- **Design end-to-end solutions** — leading discovery workshops, architecture sessions, and technical assessments for enterprise customers\n- **Build compelling business cases** and solution concepts that connect technical outcomes to measurable business value\n- **Act as a trusted advisor** to architects, technical decision-makers, and IT leaders throughout complex sales cycles\n- **Champion thought leadership** by representing NetApp at customer events, executive briefings, webinars, and industry forums\n- **Collaborate cross-functionally** with product management, marketing, and global solution teams to translate customer needs into innovative offerings\n- **Enable and coach** internal teams, partners, and customers on best practices, architecture approaches, and market trends\n- **Support competitive differentiation** by serving as a subject matter expert on consumption and as-a-service models","requirements_text":"We value skills and mindset over a specific career path. Here's what will set you up for success:\n- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise storage, data management, or hybrid cloud solutions\n- Strong understanding of **consumption, subscription, or as-a-service business models**\n- Ability to engage confidently with technical and executive stakeholders, bridging technology and business strategy\n- Experience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles, from initial engagement through close\n- Excellent communication and presentation skills — you make the complex feel clear\n- A growth mindset — you're curious, collaborative, and energized by continuous learning\n- Fluency in German and English\n- Willingness to travel regularly within Germany\n- Background in managed services, service providers, or cloud platforms is a plus.\n- Familiarity with sectors such as telco, financial services, manufacturing, or public sector is a plus.\n- Relevant certifications in infrastructure, cloud, or storage technologies is a plus.","status":"open","duplicate_of":null,"first_seen":"2026-11-02T20:01:05.366830+00:00","responsibilities_summary":null,"requirements_summary":null,"all_tools":[],"posting_language":"en","evidence":[{"language":"german","requirement":"required","quote":"Fluency in German and English","source":"rules"},{"language":"english","requirement":"required","quote":"Fluency in German and English","source":"rules"}],"years_experience_max":null,"mobility_evidence":[],"model_version":"rules-8","english_badge":"English required","company_id":null}