[Hiring] Partner Solutions Architect @Datadog

Role Description

The Partner Solution Architect (PSA) is a Datadog expert who will work closely with Datadog’s Director, Adoption Services, and is aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment. The PSA is responsible for supporting a variety of technical initiatives and activities for our partners (for example: cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps transformation). They are accountable for the outcome of these initiatives, and frequently collaborate with both Datadog and Partner resources to drive success. The PSA is a trusted technical advisor for our Partner channel.

• Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources;
• Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams;
• Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices;
• Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, e.g.) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution;
• Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities;
• Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify and prioritize new features and capabilities;
• Continuously help curate and evolve lead/best practices for Datadog platform adoption and success.

Qualifications

• Possess a solid technical grounding with hands-on experience of IT Development and/or Operations;
• A demonstrable track-record and never-ending passion for learning;
• A self-starter, tech-savvy professional with solid business acumen; ability to articulate Datadog value from server room to boardroom;
• Confident presentation skills;
• Must be a current EU resident.

Requirements

• Desired hands-on experience in two or more of the following areas:
• Observability: Datadog, Splunk, AppD, New Relic or Dynatrace
• Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, or Alibaba
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry
• Dev/Scripting: Python, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go
• Config Mgmt: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
• CI / CD: Jenkins, Gitlab

Benefits

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits;
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan;
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities;
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space;
• Best in breed onboarding;
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally;
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.