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Partner Solution Architect

Stockholm, Sweden

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Overview

At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an Engineer with NetApp, you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.

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Ready to be an engineer at NetApp? Explore the traits that can help you thrive.

  • Analytical
  • Adaptable
  • Communicator
  • Detail-oriented
  • Quick-thinking
  • Problem solver

Responsibilities

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden Job category: Systems Engineering Job ID: 136330-en_US

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

You'll help partners become self-sufficient technical engines of growth.

As a Partner Solutions Architect (PSA), you will be a technical leader responsible for scaling NetApp's technical reach through the partner ecosystem. Acting as a trusted advisor to strategic reseller, distributor, and alliance partners, you will build partner capability, shape technical strategy, and enable partners to independently position, architect, sell, and deliver NetApp solutions

Working closely with partners, field sales, systems engineers, alliance teams, and product organisations, you will bridge technical enablement and business execution. Through coaching, solution leadership, community development, and thought leadership, you will accelerate partner maturity, expand portfolio adoption, and drive measurable partner-led growth. Success in this role comes from influence, enablement, and scale rather than direct ownership of customer opportunities.

The PSA operates through coaching, mentoring, and capability development rather than direct execution. The goal is to help partners become increasing self-sufficent, reducing dependency on NetApp whilst increasing their ability to independently create customer and business growth.

What You'll Do

Build Partner Capability

Own the technical enablement strategy for assigned partners, aligned to business priorities and growth objectives. Develop partner technical maturity across NetApp's strategic solution portfolios through scalable workshops, bootcamps, hands-on labs, technical onboarding programmes, and coaching initiatives. Mentor partner Solution Architects, Systems Engineers, and technical leaders to build long-term capability and independence. Enable distributor technical teams to autonomously qualify, design, and support opportunities within their market segments.  

Provide Technical Solution Leadership

Provide architecture guidance on complex partner-led opportunities and act as a technical escalation point when additional expertise is required. Help partners develop differentiated, domain-led offerings that integrate NetApp technologies into broader customer solutions and alliance ecosystems. Support solution validation, design reviews, and the development of repeatable solution patterns that partners can independently replicate and scale. Guide and coach partners through technical decision-making, helping them to build confidence and capability to lead future engagements independently.  

Evangelise and Lead Thought Leadership 

Present at bootcamps, partner conferences, technical communities, distributor events, and industry forums. Build credibility and influence through technical leadership and community engagement. Contribute to technical content, reference architectures, best-practice guidance, and reusable enablement materials that strengthen the broader partner ecosystem. 

Grow the Partner Community 

Build and nurture strong relationships within partner and distributor organisations. Develop thriving technical communities, advisory groups, and peer networks that encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration. Connect partner practice leaders with NetApp experts and foster collaboration across partners, distributors, alliance teams, and field organisations. 

Accelerate Partner-Led Growth 

Collaborate with sales, channel, marketing, and alliance teams to drive partner-led pipeline creation and portfolio expansion. Support partner-led campaigns, workshops, technical events, and solution development initiatives that help partners identify, qualify, and progress opportunities independently. Increase adoption across NetApp's strategic portfolio areas and help partners expand beyond traditional storage opportunities. 

Connect Ecosystem Insights to Strategy 

Act as a voice of the partner ecosystem within NetApp by capturing partner and customer feedback and helping influence technical strategy and future solutions. Share market insights, partner challenges, and emerging opportunities with internal stakeholders to improve partner success and solution relevance. 

What You'll Bring

  • Significant experience in technical presales, solution architecture, consulting, partner enablement, or related technical leadership roles. 
  • Experience working with channel partners, distributors, system integrators, or alliance partners. 
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise IT, cloud, data infrastructure, and solution architecture practices. 
  • Experience aligning technical strategy and enablement programmes to commercial and business priorities. 
  • Experience developing technical capability through coaching, enablement programmes, mentoring, or community leadership. 
  • Familiarity with hyperscaler cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) and alliance technologies such as Cisco, NVIDIA, and Commvault. 
  • Ability to translate technical differentiation into repeatable partner-led solutions and business outcomes. 
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills. 
  • Ability to drive outcomes through expertise and collaboration rather than direct authority. 
  • A coaching mindset and a passion for helping others succeed. 
  • Ability to thrive in a matrix organisation and balance strategic thinking with practical execution.  

Nice to Have

  • Experience in a technical role within a sales, channel, or alliance organisation.

  • Experience building and scaling technical communities and enablement programmes.

  • Experience creating technical content, such as blogs, whitepapers, workshops, or conference sessions.

  • Familiarity with AI infrastructure, cyber resilience, hybrid cloud, or other modern data infrastructure architectures.

  • Experience working across multiple countries, partner ecosystems, or alliances. 

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

Submitting an Application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.


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Our values

Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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Equal Opportunity Employer*

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status and any other protected classification. We pledge to take every reasonable step to ensure that our applicants and employees are respected, treated fairly and with dignity. See the EEO poster, Know your rights poster, and NetApp EEO policy. NetApp makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for religious purposes and for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions unless undue hardship would result.

State-specific postings/notices to applicants regarding contract compliance can be found here in English and here in Spanish, and fair employment practice information can be found here.

Reasonable Accommodations

At NetApp, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible workplace where individuals with disabilities can thrive. In alignment with our values, NetApp provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments where possible to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities, in accordance with employment rights and regulations relevant to their country of employment, to ensure equal access to employment opportunities and job performance.

Applicants who would like to request an accommodation or adjustment are encouraged to Contact Us. Each request will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, in accordance with applicable laws and our commitment to equity and belonging within our culture, values and business practices. Requests will be handled confidentially and respectfully, and we will work collaboratively to identify effective solutions.

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Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes to the above email address.

Data privacy

We care about your privacy and, therefore, ask that you read our Candidate Privacy Notice before you submit any personal information to us.

NetApp does not carry out any solely automated decision making (i.e. the process of making a decision by automated means without any human involvement) in determining your suitability or eligibility for specific roles.

However, the processing of your personal information is carried out with the aid of manual and automated tools. In particular, NetApp may use an automated employment evaluation tool or similar tool as one of several tools, actions, and/or steps to assist with NetApp’s review of candidate applications for various hiring needs.

Currently, when addressing certain hiring needs, NetApp uses the following tools: 

  • Eightfold (eightfold.ai): This tool can provide an initial ranking of a candidate’s skills and experience, based on information provided by the applicant in the application and/or supporting documentation, in comparison to the NetApp designated key requirements of a specific role. Additionally, the tool may be used to help review and/or rank internal employees seeking promotion or other internal mobility. An independent audit of the Eightfold Matching Model tool can be found at https://eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfoldmatching-model
  • Findem (findem.ai): This tool is used to help identify candidates whose skills and experience may be relevant to open roles at NetApp, using publicly available professional information. Findem may also be used to assist with candidate matching, AI-assisted screening, and recruitment communications. 

Our talent acquisition team or our recruiters will ultimately select the candidates for further consideration, following human review of any automated evaluation results and associated underlying documentation (or lack thereof) submitted with the candidates’ application. 

Candidates may request an alternative selection process which will not be subject to the Eightfold matching tool or to any electronic automated employment evaluation by contacting NetApp at careers@netapp.com. To bypass the Eightfold matching tool or any electronic automated employment evaluation, you must include a resume and job ID with your email to careers@netapp.com and you must include in the subject line of your email: Data Privacy Request. Candidates who have questions or want to request additional information on the source of data, type of data, and/or collection of data related to the candidate review process should contact NetApp at careers@netapp.com

Note: Eightfold is not applicable to temporary hiring opportunities. If you are interested in temporary roles, you can apply via a third-party site managed by our preferred supplier, Magnit Global. Magnit Global will provide its own privacy disclosures for your review as part of the application process.

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team reviews apcplications submitted through our company website only. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use AI-powered tools to assist with tasks such as identifying relevant candidates, matching skills and experience to role requirements, and conducting initial screenings. These tools support - rather than replace - human decision-making. To learn more, please see our AI Transparency Statement. If you would prefer not to engage with an AI-assisted process, you can request an alternative by contacting careers@netapp.com. Choosing an alternative process will not impact your candidacy in any way.