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. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.
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Paris, Île-de-France Region, France Job category: EMEA Sales Job ID: 136312-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
As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in understanding and addressing the unique needs of our service provider and global system integrator customers. You will work with their teams and their final customers to identify challenges, and translate them into innovative technical solutions. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will engage with stakeholders at all levels, adapting your communication style to their specific needs and motivations. Beyond supporting initial technical discussions, you will take ownership of designing and delivering comprehensive solutions that align with customer goals and NetApp’s portfolio.
Job Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority in customer engagements, ensuring a credible and impactful presence throughout the sales cycle.
- Act as a Trusted Advisor, guiding customers through complex technical decisions and long-term architectural strategies.
- Assess and analyze customers’ current IT environments, including cloud platforms, IT infrastructure, networks, applications, Kubernetes and AI projects.
- Design and deliver customized solution architectures that align with customer transformation goals, business priorities, and NetApp’s capabilities.
- Present technical solutions to diverse audiences, from technical teams to C-level executives, clearly articulating the value and rationale behind the proposed designs.
- Collaborate closely with the Client Executive to ensure a unified and strategic approach to account management and customer success.
- Address complex technical inquiries with confidence, providing expert guidance and ensuring high-quality execution.
- Support the full sales cycle by aligning technical solutions with customer roadmaps, leveraging NetApp’s portfolio to drive value and innovation.
Job Requirements
- Strong interest in emerging IT trends and technologies, including public and hybrid clouds, containerization, DevOps practices, and artificial intelligence.
- A passion for advising customers on their digital transformation journey, with a focus on co-creating innovative solutions.
- Analytical mindset with a creative and team-oriented approach to problem-solving.
- Solid technical knowledge in areas such as enterprise/cloud computing, virtualization, storage, backup, and high availability solutions.
- Familiarity with NetApp technologies is a strong plus.
- A degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience.
- Excellent communication skills in French and English, both written and verbal.
- Previous professional experience managing technical relationships with partners, particularly within the service provider and global system integrator segments.
- Demonstrated ability to self-learn and quickly acquire new technical skills, with a proactive approach to continuous learning and development.
- Experience working in an inclusive team environment where field experience and expertise are highly shared, fostering a collaborative and interactive culture.
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.
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.