Partner Solutions Architect

The Basics: 

At Tanium, Partner Solutions Architects thrive on solving problems and building new solutions for our partners that enable and enhance partner offerings using Tanium. 

This role focuses on: 

• Identifying, qualifying and exploring new ways for consultancies, systems integrators, and managed services providers to derive value from our platform. 
• Working closely with our partners to architect, develop and enhance partner services leveraging Tanium in alignment with our mutual business goals. 
• Building and growing relationships with the partner ranging from engineers to executive sponsors. 
• Help partners re-imagine services using the Tanium platform 

As a Partner Solutions Architect, you will report to the Customer Organisation AVP, and will work closely with our partner business development team, and both technical and business-oriented partner stakeholders. Accordingly, a successful candidate will have a blend of business and technical skills. This position encompasses a wide range of responsibilities and opportunities, we seek exceptionally versatile candidates with demonstrable acumen in each of the below areas. 

What you'll do? 

Work closely with our Partners to: 

• Become an expert in our partners’ solution and services offerings.  
• Manage the technical relationship with our key stakeholders at the partner firm  
• Develop trust with all levels within the partner organization  
• Keep efforts moving forward and overcome institutional inertia  
• Teach partners how to use Tanium in their services  
• Demo, deploy, operationalize, and extend the Tanium Platform  
• Solve problems and build new solutions (R&D)  
• Address our partners’ needs  
• Thrive in a team-oriented culture through delivering a significant individual contribution while collaborating with and strengthening teammates 
• Think critically, spanning the partners’ service development, creation, enablement and sales process  
• Work closely with Tanium Strategic Alliances Business Development team  

We're looking for someone with:

Education  

• BS degree in computer science, MIS, or equivalent experience required  

Experience  

• 4+ years of working with partners and integrating software solutions with service providers  
• Experience in a role requiring translating between the business and technology realms, for example pre-sales engineering, consulting.   
• Core technical understanding, developed through 5+ years of hands-on experience in one or more of the domains below, of the modern IT environment. Broad knowledge across several technical domains is required, coupled with deep knowledge in one or more of the following:  
  • Endpoint Security  
  • Endpoint Support/Troubleshooting  
  • Incident response  
  • Systems Management  
  • Systems Administration  
  • Software Engineering  
  • Utility Scripting (e.g. bash, PowerShell, VBScript, Python, etc.)  
• Ability to envision how technology can create or enhance business opportunities for service providers.  
• Track record of driving projects from idea to implementation.  
• Hands-on Tanium experience a major plus 
• Naturally team-oriented with a mission first attitude 
• Travel Requirements: Expected to travel up to 70% of the time on average (varies by partner requirements)   

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most. 

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