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Role Overview: The Field Solutions Engineer is an independent, customer-centric problem-solver and storyteller who owns the pre-sales technical strategy for higher-complexity opportunities across the UKI market. As a key member of the Enterprise Sales team, you will combine deep technical expertise with consultative selling skills to understand customer challenges, design tailored solutions, and articulate business value that compels customers to choose SolarWinds. This is a field-based role with a strong on-site customer presence, requiring regular travel across the UK to engage with enterprise customers, channel partners, and key accounts.

You will operate with high autonomy, serve as a trusted technical advisor, and play a critical role in driving revenue growth across the region.

Key Responsibilities

: Pre-Sales Ownership: Own the end-to-end SE strategy for customer engagements across the UKI enterprise segment, including meeting agenda design, story arc, technical approach, and follow-through. Product Demonstrations Webinars: Conduct compelling online and on-site product demonstrations and webinars, tailoring messaging and content to the customer’s specific business challenges and technical environment.

Requirements

, and pain points. Assess the customer’s current infrastructure and recommend solutions that improve performance, scalability, and operational efficiency, defining project scope, success criteria, and timelines.

, using consultative and value-based selling techniques.

Complex POC Execution: Design and execute complex Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Value (POV) engagements, including multi-product scenarios, integrations, and scaled environments. Anticipate and mitigate technical and organisational risk throughout the evaluation process. Product Configuration Troubleshooting: Perform advanced pre-sales technical support duties, including product configuration, environment setup, and troubleshooting of customer issues during evaluations.

Customer Product Feedback: Convey structured customer feedback, including feature requests, competitive intelligence, and product issues, to Product Management and Development teams. Help shape internal best practices based on field experience. Continuous Learning Enablement: Maintain and continually upgrade technical understanding of the SolarWinds product portfolio.

Provide training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to other team members, and deliver Sales/Partner enablement sessions as required. Events Field Presence: Present at partner events, trade shows, and industry conferences. Travel to partner sites for training and enablement.