Senior Solutions Architect

Digital Realty is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead strategic enterprise engagements across the EMEA region. This senior, customer-facing role combines deep technical expertise with business acumen to drive hybrid IT, cloud, interconnection, and AI-enabled solutions for large enterprise customers.

You will act as a trusted advisor to CIOs, enterprise architects, and IT leaders-shaping long-term digital transformation strategies through executive briefings, architecture workshops, and technical guidance., * Lead the technical strategy for complex, high-value, and strategic enterprise pursuits

• Partner closely with Sales leadership on long-term account strategy, deal positioning, and technology roadmaps
• Act as a long-term trusted technical advisor to key enterprise customers at C-level and senior IT leadership level
• Deliver executive briefings, architecture visioning sessions, and solution design workshops
• Architect and validate hybrid IT solutions across data centers, public and private cloud, interconnection, and high-performance networking
• Advise customers on workload placement, application modernization, data gravity, and infrastructure transformation
• Engage with cloud providers, network partners, and technology vendors/partners to deliver integrated enterprise solutions
• Provide structured customer feedback into Product and Platform teams to influence service evolution
• Contribute to regional thought leadership through customer events, industry forums, webinars, and strategic briefings
• Share architectural insights with Sales Engineers and Solutions Architects through collaboration on complex customer engagements
• Influence regional go-to-market motions, solution frameworks, and technical messaging

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * 10+ years enterprise IT or architecture experience and 5+ years in pre-sales, consulting, or strategic advisory roles

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Master's or MBA preferred)
• Cloud and enterprise IT certifications strongly preferred
• Enterprise IT architecture (servers, storage, virtualization, HCI, data center operations)
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud
• Networking & interconnect: leaf-spine, SDN, MPLS, private connectivity
• Infrastructure automation and orchestration (Terraform, Ansible, OpenStack, vRealize)
• AI infrastructure and enterprise AI integration concepts (MLOps, GPUs, data governance)
• Fluent in English and German , with the ability to communicate effectively at executive and technical levels; additional European languages are a plus
• Willingness to travel up to 30%, Do you thrive in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment and enjoy leading teams to deliver top-notch procurement strategies? If so, apply now to join our team!

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• Flexible schedule

Digital Realty is the leading provider of carrier and cloud neutral data centre services by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx ) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on 6 continents. We've 3,500+ colleagues around the world who work together, come up with life-changing solutions and create connections that matter every day.