Staff Solution Architect

at  Splunk

Splunk Solution Architects are experienced customer-facing Pre-Sales Solution Architects with proven expertise in designing scalable Splunk architectures across hybrid and distributed environments. As a senior member of the Pre-Sales team, you will play a pivotal role in assisting our customers with their most advanced use-cases in the goal of turning their data into meaningful answers.
Joining a very skilled Solution Architects overlay team, you’ll collaborate with technical experts to assist our customers in the Central European Region as well as other EMEA Markets in designing Splunk solutions. The Solution Architect team operates as a distributed, remote team with members spanning different time zones, languages, and locations.
A successful Splunk Solution Architect maintains a profound technical understanding of the Splunk platform, fosters cross-functional relationships, and excels in communicating complex topics to both internal and external audiences.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• A University Bachelor’s degree or similar (preferably in computer science, software engineering or a similar field)
• Available to travel to visit prospects and customers in the EMEA region.

• Provide hands-on technical sales leadership to Splunk sales opportunities across EMEA, guiding customers to optimize outcomes by employing best practices, sizing, and validated architectures. Address complex technology, process, and regulatory challenges, while offering expertise in advanced hybrid solutions and expansion of Splunk use-cases.
• Continuously enhance personal expertise in evolving and emerging technologies shaping the latest industry trends. Prototype solutions for integration with Splunk, including streaming and data transformation, forwarding and collection architectures, search federation, Data Lakes and Data Warehousing, security/compliance, public cloud IaaS and PaaS, Open-Source Software (E.G. OpenTelemetry) and Container Orchestration (E.G. Kubernetes).
• Act as an internal technical expert, addressing inquiries about Splunk Platform & Splunk Cloud, as well as related cloud services from Public Clouds like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services.
• Develop and deliver technical content for both internal and external audiences, playing a key role in advancing sales stages and promoting thought leadership.
• Operate as a self-motivated individual with a strong commitment to learning, growth, teaching, and achieving success.
• Collaborate with internal Technical Interlocks to proactively identify customer challenges and needs, actively influencing the Product roadmap to align with critical customer requirements.