Product Solutions Architect
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Job Summary
Job Summary
Join NetApps CVO team as a Product Solutions Architect. Own strategic cloud workloads across AWS Azure and Google Cloudturn customer insight into product capabilities lead previews to GA and scale adoption with hands-on solutioning tooling and enablement.
The Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team helps customers run business-critical workloads on the cloud with the resilience and efficiency of ONTAP. We drive growth for NetApp cloud storage by converting customer needs into product capabilities validating solutions with early customers and enabling the field to scale adoption. Were looking for a Product Solutions Architect to accelerate CVO adoption across AWS Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Youll own strategic workload solutions end-to-endshaping direction with product and engineering incubating features through preview to GA building tooling that removes friction and enabling our field partners and customers to this tole you will:
- Own workload solutions:Integrate CVO into hyperscaler-native architectures; lead the full lifecycle for strategic initiatives from discovery and validation through build launch and post-GA evaluation.
- Turn signals into roadmap:Translate customer and partner feedback (RFEs/FPVRs) into crisp PRFAQs and actionable backlog items; partner with engineering to scope prioritize and guide sprint execution.
- Incubate features & drive early growth:Run private/public previews engage design partners and prove value for capabilities like block datastores freemium/agentless onboarding marketplace flows and AI/analytics integrations.
- Design for adoption at scale:Build and maintain tooling (licensing/trial automation POC accelerators performance sizers/TCO models) to reduce time-to-value and standardize best practices.
- Field & customer enablement:Author technical docs and solution guides; deliver deep-dive sessions and train-the-trainer programs for NetApp and hyperscaler field teams; present at global industry events.
- Customer & partner advocacy:Host advisory boards and office hours; act as a technical liaison for strategic escalations; partner closely within the hyperscaler ecosystem to align roadmaps and co-develop solutions.
- Data-driven outcomes:Define track and communicate KPIs (usage/adoption cost/performance revenue impact) and iterate based on learnings to improve product-market fit and business results.
- Cross-functional collaboration:Work across product management engineering UX support marketing sales CSMs professional services and partner integrators; contribute to internal knowledge initiatives.
Job Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in building/operating solutions on at least one hyperscaler (AWS Azure or Google Cloud).
- Strong full-stack awareness from data storage through applications and business processes: OS networking virtualization security/governance cost management/FinOps analytics/AI/ML and automation/IaC.
- Proven experience as a Cloud/Solutions Architect Solution Engineer Product Manager or product-adjacent architecture role with a track record of solving complex storage problems and influencing product outcomes.
- Protocols & data management expertise (NFS/SMB/CIFS/iSCSI RAID snapshots replication) and performance tuning for cloud workloads.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; ability to articulate deep technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Customer obsession bias for action and ownership mentality with demonstrated end-to-end delivery across globally dispersed teams.
- Familiarity with enterprise automation frameworks and/or a programming language (e.g. PowerShell Python Terraform ARM/Bicep CloudFormation) is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with NetApp ONTAP (configuration operations troubleshooting optimization) is a plus.
Nice to Have
- Experience with VMware Solution (AVS) Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and cloud marketplace deployment models.
- Hands-on integration with Azure OneLake Google Gemini and cloud AI/analytics services backed by object/S3 on ONTAP.
- Background in creating field-facing tools (estimators sizers onboarding/licensing automation) and standardized reference architectures.
- Experience designing for stringent security and sovereignty requirements (contractual legal geopolitical industry frameworks).
- Exposure to regulated/sovereign environments (e.g. Azure GovCloud Google Assured Workloads) and compliance programs.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Organizational Management
- Presentation Skills
- Agile
- SAFe
- AWS
- Solution Architecture
- Conflict Management
- Data Management
- Scrum
- Team Management
- Pre-sales
- Management Consulting
About Company
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