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

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