Partner Solutions Architect (Pan-EMEA GSI)

Responsibilities

• ▹Ensure successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources
• ▹Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to align Datadog and Partner technical teams
• ▹Support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations, proofs of value, enablement workshops, and coaching on best practices
• ▹Advocate on behalf of Partners' technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues) with Datadog internal teams, helping resolve them
• ▹Analyze Partner service offerings regularly and recommend enhancements through greater Datadog feature adoption
• ▹Collaborate with product management, engineering, and technical services teams to identify and prioritize new features
• ▹Continuously curate and evolve best practices for Datadog platform adoption and success

Requirements

• ▹Solid technical grounding with hands-on IT Development and/or Operations experience
• ▹10-15 years of experience in a customer- or partner-facing technical role
• ▹Self-starter, tech-savvy professional with solid business acumen and confident presentation skills
• ▹Hands-on experience in two or more of: Observability (Datadog, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace), Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba), Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry), Dev/Scripting (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go), Config Management (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab)

Nice to have

• ▹Previous experience in a technical role for or supporting channel partners (Systems Integrators, Managed Services Providers)
• ▹Previous experience using Datadog and/or other cloud monitoring tools (APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, NPM)
• ▹Previous experience with root-cause-analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Best-in-breed onboarding
• ▹Generous global benefits
• ▹Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• ▹New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• ▹Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• ▹Inclusive company culture, Community Guilds, and Inclusion Talks
• ▹Benefits and Growth may vary based on the country of employment and the nature of employment with Datadog

About the company

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack - applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security - in one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.