Cloud Native Architect, Strategic Accounts, Manufacturing (EMEA)

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Position Overview

As a member of the World Wide Strategic Accounts field team the CloudNative Architect (CNA) is a senior technologist who owns the technical sales strategy evaluation program and architectural vision creating repeatable business with software opportunities with the companys largest multinational customers. You will guide Clevel and engineering stakeholders through solution discovery validation and financial justification ensuring every engagement results in a technical win and a clear path to enterprisewide adoption that delivers the customers business outcomes aligned to the project. Driving Pure Storage as the standard solution for delivering data-management in the WWSA Segment. Creating market penetration strategy and thought leadership across the entire theater/segment.

The role of a Cloud Native Architect (CNA) is a multifaceted position that serves as a technical bridge between the sales product and engineering teams. This role is important for driving revenue growth and enhancing customer relationships by providing technical solutions for a specific set of accounts. Primarily focused on the pre-sales process the individual in this role will engage with potential and existing customers to understand their business issues and technical hurdles related to Kubernetes. They will deliver tailored product demonstrations respond to technical inquiries and work with the Pure Storage technical field to architect solutions that integrate Pure Storage offerings with clients software driven platforms. The responsibilities of the Cloud Native Architect will fall into (5) categories:

• Participation in Lead Generation
• Technical Qualification
• Solution Validation
• Prospect to Customer Transition
• Established Customer Satisfaction

These categories will serve not only as the foundation for the role but align with the Technical Sales Process to provide the best possible customer experience.

Role Scope

Theater: Strategics (by theater EMEA/AMER)

Builds and leads: CNA team pooled to deliver outcomes in aligned theater Strategic accounts

Role type: Technical Pre-sales Architect

Revenue alignment:

• This role is directly assigned to the Theater Strategics Portworx and Pure Storage Cloud quota and is expected to meet and exceed TCV Sales goals.
• CNAs have primary vertical/account assignments while also being goaled on overall Theater quota performance ensuring the team operates as a focused unit without losing shared accountability.

Focus Areas & Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Sales Leadership

• Lead the full Cloud Native technical sales process lifecycle Discovery Strategy Alignment Demo Workshop POC/POV and WrapUp to secure the technical decision in deals for WWSA.
• Architect Kubernetescentric data platforms spanning multiple regions clouds and business units.
• Own the technical sections of proposals RFx responses and SOWs.

Financial & Business Value Selling

• Translate technical capabilities into quantified business outcomes that resonate with executive sponsors.

Customer Engagement

• Act as the primary technical face of the companys Cloud Native portfolio to WWSA teams; orchestrate executive briefings architecture workshops and steeringcommittee updates. Locating and coordinating with other BU and technical sales stakeholders to deliver outcomes for customers goals.
• Establish a cadence (weekly checkpoints executive QBRs) aligned to the customers program milestones. For NNL and Expansion opportunities.

Thought Leadership

• Evangelize best practices in Cloud Native data management platform engineering and cost optimization through conference talks blogs and executive roundtables.
• Mentor fellow Cloud Native Architect (CNA) on enterprise engagement methodology and financial value selling.

Co-Seller Collaboration and Leadership

• Interact with the WWSA Sales Global Account Manager Lead Client Director for each strategic account to bring full Pure Storage portfolio solutions to customers
• Enablement of Cloud Native Processes standards and excellence.

• Attend industry events to deliver a talk or support booth staff
• Produce technical content in the form of blogs webinars and podcasts
• Proactively engage contacts in professional network through LinkedIn etc
• Support monthly Hands-on Labs
• Attend Pure user groups
• Organize community user groups
• Attend co-seller Sales Engineering Manager/Directors team meetings monthly to reinforce alignment share relevant insights and ensure consistent technical messaging across teams.
• Bi-Weekly Interactions should focus on meaningful changes in opportunity status emerging risks customer sentiment deal velocity and where technical leadership can improve outcomes or remove friction.
• Quarterly Interactions should support shared planning and reflection including QBR/QSR collaboration headwinds and tailwinds participation effectiveness and alignment on priorities for the coming quarters.
• Collaborate with the Co-seller Technical Sales Directors to co-sponsor targeted PX sales efforts for a small number of priority customers engaging directly where technical leadership can materially influence outcomes.
• Other duties as assigned by Technical Sales Leadership

• Review information gathered as part of Sales Stage 1
• Discuss the opportunity with the AE to identify missing data related to BANT and/or other qualifiers.
• Capture the project success criteria from the customer
• Create a mapping to the desired Business Impact & Outcomes
• Review & document the customers current state
• Document technical pain points & focus areas
• Review the Assessment Scorecard to ensure alignment with the customer
• Document the technical details and other data points in SFDC
• Present the proposed Evaluation Program based on information gathered from the discovery phase:
• An overview of their current architecture
• Review of Pure Storage Capabilities critical to the customer and their project
• A proposed solution including an updated architecture with Pure Storage data management and key components
• Success criteria for the proposed solution and method to demonstrate (demo workshop POC/POV)
• Other duties as assigned by Technical Sales Leadership

• Provide a capabilities demonstration to the prospect
• Conduct an Technical Workshop with the prospect to gather deeper solution configuration parameters discuss additional benefits and highlight specific solution capabilities
• Plan and coordinate a Proof Of Concept/Value that will address the customers outstanding solution parameters
• Provide a POC/POV outcomes report that highlights the testing completed as part of the POC/POV the relevant outcomes and the overall business value to the customer.
• Other duties as assigned by Technical Sales Leadership

• Introduce & explain fixed scope installation services
• Coordinate scoping of Professional Services (if needed)
• Discuss the value of BCS (Business Critical Services) and propose
• Discuss the value of SA (Solution Architect) Hours and propose
• Discuss the value of a CSM (Customer Success Manager) and propose
• Discuss customer training/certification credits and propose
• Prepare Transition Documentation:
• High-level Project Plan
• Key Milestones
• Customer Key Technical Contacts
• External Integration Overview

1. Observability
2. Identity Management
3. Security Requirement
4. Any additional Integrations
5. 5. Other dependencies to begin the project (Hardware Platform etc.)

• Establish a regular cadence beginning 90 days post deal close and continuing quarterly
• Review product expansion and feature adoption as part of quarterly cadence
• Document RFEs and usability concerns
• Provide release updates and updated roadmaps
• Other duties as assigned by Technical Sales Leadership

Expected Impact & Success Metrics

• Deliver Technical Wins that Convert to Booked Revenue
• 80% Technical Win rate in Opportunities above Stage 2(Exception for Misaligned Deals)
• Achieve booked sales attainment goal
• Accuracy and Accelerated Technical Sales Process
• Qualified Opportunities with TSP Cycle less than 90 days in Stage 2
• Technical and Financial Solution Delivery
• 100% of Opportunities have TCO/ROI proposals with written customer approval
• Strengthen CX Handoff and Post Close Won Customer Relationship
• Measure firstyear adoption of features validated during the Technical Sales Process. Document customer progress with CSM.
• Quarterly meets with every current customer
• WWSA Penetration
• Pool Goal of raising Under penetrated WWSA accounts to over $1M TCV
• Pool Goal of Pipeline in 50% of WWSA
• Pool Goal of initial landing footprint in 50% of WWSA

THE ROLE

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WHAT YOULL DO

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customers business and what motivates their decision making
• Connect the dots from technology solutions inclusive of the Pure Storage portfolio and others from the ecosystem to measurable customer business outcomes
• Partner closely with account managers specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
• Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Pure Storage solution
• Refine sales strategy and tactics taking command of technical responsibilities
• Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products distributed storage architectures file systems and competitive storage offerings in the DAS NAS and SAN product spaces
• Take control of evaluations benchmarks and system configurations
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
• Capture requirements and translate Customers business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
• Author responses to RFI & RFPs
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability functional and performance testing/validation
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
• Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest differentiated solution positioning
• Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
• Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence Creativity Teamwork Ownership and Customer-first

WHAT YOU BRING

• Creativity empathy an open mind curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
• Pre-sales experience is required
• 5 or more years of relevant experience mixed among technology design and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage networking systems cloud or software to enterprise accounts preferred
• Deep understanding of the architecture design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs RFQs and RFIs
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC iSCSI NAS OSD SAN)
• Linux NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
• Familiarity with AWS Azure GCP a plus
• Installation/configuration of distributed computing multiprocessing virtual memory subsystem storage subsystems architecture shared memory architectures cache architectures windowing systems
• Familiarity with containers k8s and microservices architectures a plus
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture On-Prem Public Cloud Provisioning Automation and Containers
• Knowledge of VMware Local Area Networking Ethernet TCP/IP and general networking
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
• BS in CS EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
• Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack scale-out vs scale-up architectures AWS well-architected framework microservices architecture)
• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
• We are primarily an in-office environment and therefore you will be expected to work from the OFFICELOCATION office in compliance with Pures policies unless you are on PTO or work travel or other approved leave.Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL Oracle) is highly desirable

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