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      <Title>Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture (Pre-Sales)</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>We are in search of a Solutions Architecture (Presales) Manager to lead our SA team across the UK. You will drive recruiting, hiring and enabling a diverse team who will strive to overachieve on our growth targets. As a member of our broader Sales Leadership team, you will assist in defining and executing the strategy for building a high-performance team and scaling our company.</p>
<p>Key to your success will be your ability to foster and leverage the Elastic Community, adopt a bottom-up and &quot;Cloud-first&quot; approach with our users, and continually be thinking in terms of solutions, rather than products.</p>
<p>Responsibilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lead, mentor and grow the Solutions Architecture (Sales Engineering) team.</li>
<li>Provide the growing team with onboarding support, training and self-directed education programs.</li>
<li>Drive the value proposition for Elastic Cloud within our community and customers.</li>
<li>Communicate and align key product insights across our business functions.</li>
<li>Help our Product and Engineering teams prioritize features that mean the most to our users.</li>
<li>Formulate and drive the partner engagement strategy to overachieve regional goals.</li>
</ul>
<p>What We Are Looking For:</p>
<ul>
<li>Success leading and growing a team of Solution Architects (Sales Engineers).</li>
<li>Evidence of the ability to articulate and sell the benefits of our platforms and technologies, primarily in the security space.</li>
<li>A strong grasp of distributed systems and architectures.</li>
<li>Ability to &quot;own the room&quot; while presenting and selling with audiences both large and small.</li>
<li>Player coach with a sincere interest in continuous growth in yourself and your team</li>
</ul>
<p>Bonus Points:</p>
<ul>
<li>Experience in open source is a plus</li>
<li>Knowledge of Observability</li>
<li>Knowledge of Enterprise Search, Big Data, GenAI, Security preferred</li>
</ul>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>remote</Workarrangement>
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      <Skills>distributed systems, architectures, security, open source, observability, enterprise search, big data, genai, player coach, continuous growth, team management</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Elastic</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/elastic.co.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>Elastic is a company that enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. They provide a cloud-based platform for search, security, and observability.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://www.elastic.co/</Employerwebsite>
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      <Applyto>https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/7798047</Applyto>
      <Location>United Kingdom</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-18</Postedate>
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