Solutions Architect

About the role

The ideal candidate is someone who has 5+ years' experience in architecting, documenting, deploying, and enabling others. This role involves developing detailed architecture and transition blueprints, creating repeatable deployment blueprints, and validating these procedures in the field. The candidate will also engage directly with customers to understand their organizational needs and identify how Cohesity's product features can best support their objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed architecture and transition blueprints that guide successful customer deployments, migrations, and platform transformation initiatives.
• Create repeatable deployment blueprints that become the templates for all customer deployments.
• Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams.
• Collaborate with Cohesity’s product solutions, product management, and engineering teams to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements.
• Engage directly with customers to understand their organization needs and identify how Cohesity's product features can best support their objectives.
• Provide field feedback to Product Management and Engineering teams regarding deployment challenges, feature gaps, automation opportunities, and customer requirements.
• Define technical architecture including sizing and performance that meet customer requirements.
• Engage with teams to ensure Deployment Designs are successfully deployed.
• Continually improve deliverables as we scale and release new features/products.
• Inspect deliverables for success and improvements.
• Work with others to develop post-deployment documentation (run books, pre-deployment templates, etc.).
• Provide feedback to Implement Engineers, Systems Engineers, and engineering on ways to improve the overall experience.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 10+ years of professional IT experience. Experience highly desirable in the following areas: Backup Products, Compute & Virtualization, Physical, Databases, Networking, Security, Cloud, Scripting / Automation.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and project-related skills are required. Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation.
• Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills.
• The ability to manage projects and drive to a deadline.

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.

Benefits

Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay

This position has a starting pay range of $137,360.00-$171,700.00. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered.

Schedule

Expected Travel: 50%

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In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.