Hirehangar
Principal Solutions Engineer
South Africa, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Principal Solutions Engineer guides enterprise customers through AI readiness initiatives and large-scale unstructured data transformations. This role owns the technical lifecycle from architectural design to production success and expansion.
What you will do
- Translate customer AI, compliance, and data governance goals into scalable technical architectures
- Design phased deployment strategies across on-prem and cloud ecosystems
- Execute and manage proof-of-value engagements with defined success metrics
- Lead technical workshops and stakeholder alignment sessions
- Optimize system performance, validate throughput, and ensure production readiness
- Develop technical documentation and best practices for enterprise rollout
- Provide structured customer insights to influence product roadmap decisions
Required qualifications
- Extensive experience in enterprise pre-sales or customer-facing engineering roles within SaaS, AI, or infrastructure sectors
- Deep knowledge of hybrid infrastructure, storage systems, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong grounding in security architecture, IAM, and governance frameworks
- Experience working with large-scale unstructured data and compliance-sensitive environments
- Ability to present technical and business value clearly to C-level stakeholders
- Practical understanding of AI data pipelines, readiness assessments, and governance controls
- Prior remote work experience
- Fluent with remote collaboration tools and platforms (such as Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, Asana, or similar)
- Ideally worked with US or UK-based companies
Nice to have
- Experience in highly regulated sectors (healthcare, financial services, insurance)
- Background in automation, scripting, or Infrastructure as Code
- Familiarity with metadata analysis, data classification, or enterprise scanning technologies
Before you apply
- Complete the application form in full
- Required to record a video
- If you do not record a video, we will not be able to consider you for ANY open roles
About the company
Hire Hangar connects top talent with vetted employers, competitive pay, and real growth opportunities.