Senior Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' world-class Customer Experience team as a Solutions Architect (ProServ). You will provide customers with specialized business and technical consultation, guiding them to achieve their objectives using Grafana. This hands-on role involves managing the customer onboarding and adoption lifecycle, delivering training, and providing ongoing support. You will work with various customer teams, translate business needs into technical requirements, and design solutions. Success requires strong technical expertise, project management skills, and excellent communication. The role also involves collaborating with internal teams to drive product innovation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working on deployment teams, using project management techniques
• Direct experience with o11y
• Best practices for both using and deploying an o11y stack (visualization, alerting, metrics, logs, traces) - preferably with Grafana products (Grafana, Prometheus/Cortex/Enterprise Metrics, Loki/Enterprise Logs, Jaeger/Tempo)
• A proven track record of successful delivery of customer projects, preferably enterprise o11y implementations for large customers
• Self-starter, adept at picking up new skills and technologies, and eager to break new ground
• Excellent communication skills to communicate with customers, partners, and internal members
• Vision to help us take our company to the next level
• *nix and Windows Server Administration
• Kubernetes (kubectl, Helm, Tanka preferred)
• Experience with Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure
• Systems Architecture design
• Software Engineering experience and or ability to read code (GoLang/JS/TypeScript)

Responsibilities

• Work effectively with customers, including business executives, project managers, and IT development staff
• Understand business needs and distill the information into business and technical requirements
• Work comfortably with complex business and technological requirements and translate them into the design of solutions, including data visualization, workflow recommendations, migrations, and enterprise-scale architecture
• Act as a functional lead and demonstrate a clear approach to methodology as well as functional capabilities
• Lead functional workshops with customers, document requirements, and design appropriate solutions
• Prioritize speed in delivering solutions for customers
• Advocate for adherence to standards and best practices
• Stay current on Grafana Labs, observability, and related technologies
• Serve as a key resource for Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Support, and Professional Services teams to drive innovation and improvements in future product and offering enhancements
• Manage the life-cycle of our customer’s onboarding and adoption of Grafana offerings and features, with a commitment to deliver world-class experiences and time to value
• Deliver packaged training, quick-starts, session cataloging, project and roadmap assurance, as well as specialized consulting for high-priority customers with complex technical requirements and resource constraints
• Manage ongoing support to customers to ensure they’re continuing to get value from our commercial products and OSS projects
• Monitor support requests to identify any recurring issues, acting as the voice of the customer, and work with our product teams to recommend changes and improvements to our products

Preferred Qualifications

Executive Presence

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)
• Other benefits listed on our careers page