Senior Partner Solution Architect (presales)

Elastic Elastic · Enterprise · Singapore · SA - APJ - ASEAN

This role is for a Partner Solutions Architect at Elastic, focusing on technical strategy and enablement for partners in Singapore. The role involves architecting, building, and validating complex solutions using the Elastic Stack, with a strong emphasis on pre-sales and partner enablement. It requires deep technical expertise in distributed search/analytics technologies and cloud infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own Technical Engagement Plans (TEPs) for focus partners, establishing long-term technical roadmaps at the CTO and Practice Lead level.
  2. Guide partners through high-stakes Technical Validation cycles, ensuring Elastic solutions are built to best-practice standards.
  3. Lead "one-to-many" technical "Build-a-thons" and hands-on laboratory sessions that empower partner engineers to lead their own implementations.
  4. Build deep relationships with partner pre-sales teams to guide them through the "how-to" of complex Search AI, Observability, and Security architectures at the configuration level.
  5. Collaborate on "design wins" by developing repeatable technical blueprints.

Skills

Required

  • Direct, hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack (ELK) or similar distributed search/analytics technologies (e.g., OpenSearch, Solr, Splunk, Datadog).
  • 8+ years of experience in technical / PreSales roles.
  • Proven ability to design and build technical prototypes, ingest complex datasets, and optimize search/indexing performance.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • 3+ years in a partner-facing role, with a focus on building technical practices and enabling third-party engineering teams.
  • The ability to translate deep technical capabilities into scalable partner-led solutions.

What the JD emphasized

  • hands-on PreSales builder role
  • architecting, building, and validating
  • Technical Validation cycles
  • hands-on laboratory sessions
  • how-to
  • design and build technical prototypes