Principal Solutions Architect - FSI

The DataDirect Networks Principal Solutions Architect role blends deep technical expertise with a strong consultative approach to helping customers build and scale AI, ML, and HPC solutions. This position plays a key role in connecting DDN’s AI and data platform technologies to real customer business challenges — helping organizations improve performance, reduce latency, increase operational efficiency, and accelerate time-to-insight.

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to customers by understanding their AI, data, and infrastructure challenges and recommending tailored solutions.

• Design scalable AI and data architectures that support long-term growth, performance, and operational efficiency.

• Partner closely with Sales, Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams to support customer engagements and influence strategy.

• Lead technical presentations, demos, proof-of-concepts, and customer workshops throughout the sales cycle.

• Support partner and alliance relationships across cloud providers, OEMs, integrators, and hyperscalers.

• Deliver enablement and technical training to internal teams and external partners.