Soultions Architect

Northwest Partners is an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to moving at the speed of innovation, working with global clients to deliver exceptional knowledge, talent, and resources.

About the role

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity with a remote work structure and approximately 50% travel required for customer engagements, training, and meetings.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand business objectives, technical challenges, and infrastructure requirements.
• Develop and present technology solutions aligned with customer needs and business goals.
• Support technical discovery, solution design, configuration planning, and project scoping.
• Participate in customer presentations, demonstrations, technical discussions, and solution evaluations.
• Develop technical content for proposals and customer-facing materials.
• Design and recommend enterprise infrastructure solutions across storage, virtualization, networking, computing, and data protection environments.
• Assess existing technology environments and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with sales and technical teams to develop effective customer solutions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and technology partners.
• Support proof-of-concept initiatives and other customer technical engagements.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.
• Stay current with emerging infrastructure technologies and industry developments.

Requirements

• Strong experience working with enterprise infrastructure or data center technologies.
• Experience designing, implementing, supporting, or selling enterprise technology solutions.
• Strong experience with enterprise storage technologies and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience with server virtualization, including VMware.
• Experience with data center networking and infrastructure design.
• Experience with backup, recovery, replication, or data protection technologies.
• Experience working with Windows Server and/or Linux environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture and solution design.
• Experience working directly with customers in a technical consulting, architecture, engineering, or pre-sales capacity.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into practical business solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
• Relevant technical certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Short-term Disability
• Long-term Disability
• Life Insurance
• Education Benefits

All candidates will be asked to briefly show a government-issued ID on video during the first interview to protect the integrity of the hiring process.