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Consulting Solutions Architect, Technology Alliances

Pure Storage

Santa Clara · USD 205,000-308,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

Experience
5+ years experience
Workplace
Hybrid
Location
Santa Clara
Salary
USD 205,000-308,000 / year · Base salary

About the role

  • The Consulting Solutions Architect, Technology Alliances serves as the technical owner of strategic alliance relationships, working directly with partner architects, engineering, and product teams.
  • This role focuses on designing, validating, and launching joint technical solutions that enable both Everpure and its partners to drive business and pipeline.
  • It acts as a critical conduit between partners and Everpure Product Management to align roadmaps and resolve technical integration requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical definition of joint solutions including use case selection, reference architecture, and integration design.
  • Execute joint labs, interoperability testing, and validated designs to ensure solutions stand up under customer scrutiny.
  • Bring partner requirements, such as integration gaps and API needs, back to Everpure Product Management.
  • Represent the Everpure roadmap to partner technical and product teams to align release timing.
  • Define plays, target use cases, and qualification criteria to translate joint solutions into pipeline.
  • Build technical evidence bases including positioning, competitive differentiation, and reference outcomes.
  • Support partner field and sales teams as an escalation point for joint solution architecture.
  • Establish technical credibility with partner architects, product managers, and CTOs.
  • Produce reusable technical assets such as reference architectures, sizing guidance, and deployment guides.
  • Orchestrate specialist and engineering support across the organization to deliver joint solutions.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical leadership.
  • Demonstrable record of building partner or alliance-led business.
  • Direct experience working with technology alliance partners, including building, certifying, and launching joint solutions.
  • Commercial fluency connecting technical design decisions to joint pipeline and business models.
  • Credibility across modern data platform architecture including block, file, object, and unstructured data at scale.
  • Working knowledge of compute, database, networking, virtualization, AI/ML data pipelines, and data governance.
  • Practical command of integration and API-driven infrastructure.
  • Ability to influence without authority across two organizations.
  • Strong written, diagrammatic, and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

  • Incentive pay
  • Equity
  • Flexible time off
  • Wellness resources
  • Company-sponsored team events

Workplace

  • Role is based in Santa Clara.

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • API-driven Infrastructure
  • AI/ML Data Pipelines
  • Data Governance
  • Data Protection Architecture
  • Cloud Data Services

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