Senior Manager - Solutions Engineering

Job Summary

As a Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, you will lead and develop a high‑performing team of technology specialists across the Nordics, guiding customers and partners through their journey with NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure. You will combine strong people leadership with deep technical credibility, overseeing solution architecture, resource planning, and day‑to‑day pre‑sales operations. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will represent NetApp in strategic customer engagements, shaping cloud, data center, and hybrid architectures while ensuring complex technical challenges are solved professionally. You foster a diverse, collaborative team culture, drive continuous learning, and play an active role in change management as the market evolves.

Job Responsibilities

• Be part of the Western Europe Solutions Engineering Leadership Team


• Be an integral member of the Nordic go-to-market Leaderhip team


• Coach, motivate, develop your team and define common goals


• Convince our customers of the value of NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure


• Collaborate with our hyperscaler partners (AWS, Google, Microsoft) and co-manage the technical partnership


• Be the contact person for our customers for matters relating to their digital cloud, application and data center transformation


• Interact with our product management group and peers in other countries


• Be responsible for employee and team development


• Support marketing and technical positioning of NetApp at local and internal events

Job Requirements

• You have leadership experience in highly qualified IT teams and in dealing with IT managers in large companies


• Understanding of the technologies underpinning data management, all-flash storage arrays, cloud services and architectures, and modern container-based software landscapes; AI/ML, DevOps are not unfamiliar abbreviations to you


• You know IT trends, disruptions and changes that concern the IT industry


• Experience working in with distributed teams in the Nordic market is a plus


• Ability to anticipate, identify problems and deliver technical solutions alongside our internal teams


• Support with technical escalations at management level


• Ability to lead the design of creative and industry-leading technical solutions to complex problems


• Quick comprehension combined with inventiveness to address new trends quickly and effectively


• Deep understanding of your customer base and technology partners


• Cultural, diverse awareness


• Competent ability to create and deliver client presentations


• Ability and experience to lead and manage a high performance team


• Secure communication at customer, management and employee levels


• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to promote individual and team development


• A minimum of 8+ years of experience with preferably 2+ years as a people mgr. 


• Business fluent Swedish & English