Consulting Field Solutions Architect, Unstructured Data - Central Region

Pure Storage • Chicago, IL

20d • Remote

About The Position

We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE: As a Consulting Field Solution Architect focusing on unstructured data, you are part evangelist, part systems engineer, and part developer promoting Pure in the technical community. You love sharing your knowledge with the larger community through blog posts, webinars and presentations. You enjoy sensing trends in the market and flexing your visionary skills by identifying promising new opportunities, applications, and workflows for the Pure platform. As an industry expert you enjoy consulting and advising the field and customers on architecting, managing, and scaling their systems as well as helping with competitive analysis, design and implementation of successful POC’s. You also enjoy building prototypes to prove out potential use cases in your area of expertise. You have deep technical experience working with technologies related to databases, software development, performance tuning, virtualization and maybe even containerization . You must be familiar with the ecosystem of software vendors in the space, and will leverage this knowledge to help influence where Pure should invest from a partnership and product perspective. You also have the ability and desire to jump in and learn new emerging technologies and applications in this ever changing ecosystem, always looking for ways to enable the company's digital transformations through Pure’s Data Storage and Portworx .

Requirements

• Proficient in SMB, NFS, Object storage, file protocols, TCP/IP networking, NAS, and enterprise datacenter design.
• Deep expertise in unstructured data, including legacy challenges, key use cases, solution areas, innovation trends, and industry direction.
• 10+ years of IT and cloud infrastructure experience across compute, storage, networking, cloud, business continuity, and performance.
• Expert in NAS architecture, design, and solution development for enterprise environments.
• Strong customer-centric mindset focused on solving challenges and delivering meaningful business outcomes.
• Experienced in designing and supporting data architectures for large enterprises.
• Fast learner with the ability to quickly adopt new technologies and apply innovative, creative thinking.
• Exceptional content creation, public speaking, technical training, and presentation skills.
• Passionate about learning, teaching, mentoring, and coaching team members.
• Highly collaborative, able to partner across organizations—including sales and alliances—to deliver compelling technical messaging.
• Effective communicator capable of engaging constructively with leadership, peers, customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Motivated self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and experience operating in fast-paced, rapidly evolving technology environments.
• Able to generate differentiated, proactive ideas that support solution adoption and drive sales outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Mainstream Unstructured Data knowledge, including enablement projects to better equip the field to have relevant conversations with customers and prospects
• Participate in customer facing calls, demos, POCs, EBCs, QBRs, internal strategy/sizing sessions, and other related solution-focused activities
• Webinars/Events/Workshops presentations including internal and external content with Alliance Partners, Channel Partners, Vendors, etc.
• Solutions Roadmap participation/influence, daily conversations with Solutions Architects and Product Management about field impact, deals, and feedback from the field on existing solutions, etc.
• Stay abreast of advancements in both internal product offerings and external partner offerings as well as our competitors’ offerings
• Frequent Slack presence and activity, helping to drive customer/opportunity influence
• Create field facing solutions content (Technical Walkthroughs, Deep Dives, Qualification Guides, etc.) for specific solutions around Unstructured Data (file and object) and common use-cases
• Partner with Sales & SE Leaders for two-way feedback and communication, related to unstructured data sales motions
• Be a beacon of positivity capable of inspiring and motivating the field to reach higher levels of success and attracting customers to adopt Pure Storage technology
• High degree of cross-functional engagement with other GTM and corporate functions
• Communicate, connect, and align people within the direct team and develop internal relationships across Pure Storage

Benefits

• flexible time off
• wellness resources
• company-sponsored team events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees