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The Consulting Solution Architect - NetApp is a nationally aligned technical pre-sales role within CDW’s National Specialized Presales team. The role focuses on developing comprehensive NetApp solutions and consulting-led engagements for CDW customers across storage, data management, data protection, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud, and AI-ready infrastructure. The Consulting Solution Architect provides consultative guidance, supports partner product and services sales, scopes service offerings, and fosters strategic relationships that drive business growth.
In this role, the coworker partners with customers, delivery teams, internal sales teams, field Solution Architects, and NetApp to develop and maintain strategic relationships and serve as a trusted advisor. The role provides national technical leadership for complex and strategic opportunities, accelerates pipeline development, enables the field, and helps grow CDW’s NetApp product and services business.
What you will do:
- Develop appropriate assessment and service solutions for CDW customers, including architecture reviews, optimization engagements, technology health checks, deployment services, cyber resiliency assessments, hybrid cloud evaluations, AI readiness assessments, and advisory services.
- Collaborate with customers, delivery teams, field Solution Architects, internal sales, and NetApp to provide consultative guidance, plan sales strategy, and author statements of work (SOWs).
- Gather business and technical requirements and translate them into solution architectures, recommendations, bills of material (BOMs), proposals, and service scopes that align to customer outcomes.
- Design and position NetApp solutions across ONTAP-based storage, data protection, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud, cloud storage, data services, and AI data infrastructure.
- Analyze technical and competitive considerations, define actions to meet customer expectations during the sales cycle, uncover long-term goals and requirements, and craft solutions that build toward desired business outcomes.
- Serve as a national subject matter expert and technical escalation point for complex, strategic, and multi-region NetApp opportunities across CDW.
- Maintain strategic relationships with customers, internal sales and delivery management, field technical teams, and NetApp, acting as a trusted advisor to drive business growth.
- Maintain relationships with key strategic partners by achieving and maintaining at least five relevant partner technical certifications, with a primary emphasis on NetApp technologies.
- Grow influence nationally through high levels of engagement with customers, sales teams, vendors, and partners, and by being recognized as an expert in the field.
- Partner with business and practice leaders to support national NetApp growth strategies, go-to-market initiatives, solution plays, services development, and partner investment priorities.
- Act as a subject matter expert in multiple families of products and solutions and provide regular contributions to CDW marketing-approved activities, such as customer events, presentations, blog posts, online publications, and social media.
- Drive outreach initiatives, technical enablement projects, workshops, coaching, and mentoring for Solution Architects, Solution Executives, Solution Specialists, engineers, and sellers.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, best practices, technical collateral, enablement content, and solution documentation that improve field readiness, consistency, and execution quality.
- Collaborate across cloud, compute, networking, security, virtualization, AI, consulting, and professional services teams to develop integrated multi-vendor solutions and support successful transition to delivery.
- Represent CDW in NetApp and industry engagements, including customer executive briefings, partner events, technical forums, conferences, and joint business activities.
What we expect of you:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 7 years in a technical, pre-sales, consulting, architecture, or post-sale delivery role; or 11 years in a technical, pre-sales, consulting, architecture, or post-sale delivery role.
- Motivated, self-starting, and able to independently perform high-quality work with minimal guidance.
- Industry knowledge and domain expertise: Possess deep knowledge of enterprise storage, data management, data protection, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure. Demonstrate strong understanding of NetApp architecture, products, technologies, and solutions, including ONTAP and related data services, and apply that knowledge to customer-specific recommendations.
- Team collaboration and leadership: Work effectively with cross-functional sales, services, delivery, partner, and technical teams; lead technical discussions; influence decision-making; and provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other coworkers.
- Customer-focused approach: Demonstrate a customer-centric mindset with strong communication, presentation, discovery, and facilitation skills. Build trusted relationships, understand customer pain points, and explain technical concepts and business value clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
- Solution design and problem-solving skills: Design and communicate comprehensive solutions that address customer requirements and business challenges. Analyze complex problems, identify appropriate options, build consensus, and resolve technical gaps in proposed solutions.
- Consulting and commercial skills: Develop assessments, roadmaps, proposals, SOWs, BOMs, and consulting-led recommendations. Connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and support product, software, subscription, and services growth.
- National engagement: Manage competing priorities across a broad coverage model and collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams, customers, and partners.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% or as needed.
- Current NetApp technical certifications aligned to the role and CDW partner requirements, a plus.
- Experience architecting NetApp solutions in enterprise, hybrid cloud, virtualization, container, data protection, cyber resiliency, and AI infrastructure environments, a plus.
- Experience supporting strategic enterprise accounts and complex, multi-practice or multi-million-dollar opportunities, a plus.
- Consulting or professional services experience, including assessment development and services scoping, a plus.
- Experience delivering national field enablement, reusable solution assets, partner programs, or go-to-market initiatives, a plus.
Pay range: $121,450 - $169,210 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of 25% subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner’s mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools. We value adopting AI as a partner, openness to experimentation, and a shared interest in learning together on AI. Our goal is to create a culture where AI enhances—not replaces—human creativity and decision-making. You don’t need to be an expert today; what matters is your readiness to explore, adapt, and grow with us as we integrate AI responsibly and effectively into our work.
Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.
About us
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities.
As a full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next.
Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
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Job Summary:
The Consulting Solution Architect - NetApp is a nationally aligned technical pre-sales role within CDW’s National Specialized Presales team. The role focuses on developing comprehensive NetApp solutions and consulting-led engagements for CDW customers across storage, data management, data protection, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud, and AI-ready infrastructure. The Consulting Solution Architect provides consultative guidance, supports partner product and services sales, scopes service offerings, and fosters strategic relationships that drive business growth.
In this role, the coworker partners with customers, delivery teams, internal sales teams, field Solution Architects, and NetApp to develop and maintain strategic relationships and serve as a trusted advisor. The role provides national technical leadership for complex and strategic opportunities, accelerates pipeline development, enables the field, and helps grow CDW’s NetApp product and services business.
What you will do:
- Develop appropriate assessment and service solutions for CDW customers, including architecture reviews, optimization engagements, technology health checks, deployment services, cyber resiliency assessments, hybrid cloud evaluations, AI readiness assessments, and advisory services.
- Collaborate with customers, delivery teams, field Solution Architects, internal sales, and NetApp to provide consultative guidance, plan sales strategy, and author statements of work (SOWs).
- Gather business and technical requirements and translate them into solution architectures, recommendations, bills of material (BOMs), proposals, and service scopes that align to customer outcomes.
- Design and position NetApp solutions across ONTAP-based storage, data protection, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud, cloud storage, data services, and AI data infrastructure.
- Analyze technical and competitive considerations, define actions to meet customer expectations during the sales cycle, uncover long-term goals and requirements, and craft solutions that build toward desired business outcomes.
- Serve as a national subject matter expert and technical escalation point for complex, strategic, and multi-region NetApp opportunities across CDW.
- Maintain strategic relationships with customers, internal sales and delivery management, field technical teams, and NetApp, acting as a trusted advisor to drive business growth.
- Maintain relationships with key strategic partners by achieving and maintaining at least five relevant partner technical certifications, with a primary emphasis on NetApp technologies.
- Grow influence nationally through high levels of engagement with customers, sales teams, vendors, and partners, and by being recognized as an expert in the field.
- Partner with business and practice leaders to support national NetApp growth strategies, go-to-market initiatives, solution plays, services development, and partner investment priorities.
- Act as a subject matter expert in multiple families of products and solutions and provide regular contributions to CDW marketing-approved activities, such as customer events, presentations, blog posts, online publications, and social media.
- Drive outreach initiatives, technical enablement projects, workshops, coaching, and mentoring for Solution Architects, Solution Executives, Solution Specialists, engineers, and sellers.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, best practices, technical collateral, enablement content, and solution documentation that improve field readiness, consistency, and execution quality.
- Collaborate across cloud, compute, networking, security, virtualization, AI, consulting, and professional services teams to develop integrated multi-vendor solutions and support successful transition to delivery.
- Represent CDW in NetApp and industry engagements, including customer executive briefings, partner events, technical forums, conferences, and joint business activities.
What we expect of you:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 7 years in a technical, pre-sales, consulting, architecture, or post-sale delivery role; or 11 years in a technical, pre-sales, consulting, architecture, or post-sale delivery role.
- Motivated, self-starting, and able to independently perform high-quality work with minimal guidance.
- Industry knowledge and domain expertise: Possess deep knowledge of enterprise storage, data management, data protection, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure. Demonstrate strong understanding of NetApp architecture, products, technologies, and solutions, including ONTAP and related data services, and apply that knowledge to customer-specific recommendations.
- Team collaboration and leadership: Work effectively with cross-functional sales, services, delivery, partner, and technical teams; lead technical discussions; influence decision-making; and provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other coworkers.
- Customer-focused approach: Demonstrate a customer-centric mindset with strong communication, presentation, discovery, and facilitation skills. Build trusted relationships, understand customer pain points, and explain technical concepts and business value clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
- Solution design and problem-solving skills: Design and communicate comprehensive solutions that address customer requirements and business challenges. Analyze complex problems, identify appropriate options, build consensus, and resolve technical gaps in proposed solutions.
- Consulting and commercial skills: Develop assessments, roadmaps, proposals, SOWs, BOMs, and consulting-led recommendations. Connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and support product, software, subscription, and services growth.
- National engagement: Manage competing priorities across a broad coverage model and collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams, customers, and partners.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% or as needed.
- Current NetApp technical certifications aligned to the role and CDW partner requirements, a plus.
- Experience architecting NetApp solutions in enterprise, hybrid cloud, virtualization, container, data protection, cyber resiliency, and AI infrastructure environments, a plus.
- Experience supporting strategic enterprise accounts and complex, multi-practice or multi-million-dollar opportunities, a plus.
- Consulting or professional services experience, including assessment development and services scoping, a plus.
- Experience delivering national field enablement, reusable solution assets, partner programs, or go-to-market initiatives, a plus.
Pay range: $121,450 - $169,210 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of 25% subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner’s mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools. We value adopting AI as a partner, openness to experimentation, and a shared interest in learning together on AI. Our goal is to create a culture where AI enhances—not replaces—human creativity and decision-making. You don’t need to be an expert today; what matters is your readiness to explore, adapt, and grow with us as we integrate AI responsibly and effectively into our work.
Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.
About us
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities.
As a full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next.
Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
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Align your credentials to SOC code 13-1082
Project Management Consultants are classified under SOC code 13-1082 in the O*NET system. Confirm your degree field matches this classification before applying, mismatched credentials are the leading cause of specialty occupation RFEs for consulting roles.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Use OFLC Wage Search to filter employers who have certified LCAs for management consulting roles. Employers with repeated filings have an established H-1B workflow, which reduces processing delays and last-minute petition errors on your behalf.
Find verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Search Project Management Consultant roles on Migrate Mate to surface employers with confirmed H-1B filing history. Filtering by visa sponsorship upfront saves weeks spent pursuing employers who informally discourage sponsorship during the offer stage.
Request premium processing before your start date
USCIS premium processing guarantees a decision within 15 business days. For consulting roles with defined project start dates, standard processing timelines can push your first day past the contract window, so ask your employer to elect premium during petition filing.
Clarify your prevailing wage tier during negotiations
DOL assigns Project Management Consultants to one of four wage levels based on experience and supervisory responsibility. Before signing an offer, verify which level your employer filed under using OFLC Wage Search, a Level I filing for a senior-scope role can create compliance problems at renewal.
Document client site work in your petition cover letter
Project Management Consultants often work at client sites, which USCIS scrutinizes under itinerary requirements for consulting petitions. Your petition cover letter must list anticipated work locations and confirm the specialty occupation requirement applies at each site.
H-1B Visa Project Management Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Project Management Consultant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as business administration, engineering, or information systems. Generic management consulting roles that accept any degree can be challenged by USCIS as not meeting the specialty occupation standard, so the job description must tie the degree requirement to the actual duties performed.
How does client-site consulting work affect my H-1B petition?
USCIS requires petitions for consulting roles to include an itinerary identifying work locations when assignments span multiple client sites. Your employer should file an amended petition if you're placed at a new client site outside the metropolitan statistical area listed in the original LCA. Missing this step is one of the more common compliance gaps for consultants on H-1B status.
What happens to my H-1B status if my consulting engagement ends early?
If your employment ends before your H-1B validity period expires, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new employer, transfer your H-1B, or depart the U.S. Your new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition before the grace period ends. Consulting contracts ending early are common, so understanding this window before accepting a project-based role matters.
Can I work as an independent Project Management Consultant on an H-1B?
No. H-1B status requires a U.S. employer to file and maintain your petition. You can't self-petition or work as a sole proprietor. If you want to consult independently, you'd need a different immigration pathway. On H-1B, you must remain in a valid employer-employee relationship with the sponsoring company throughout your authorized period.
How do I find Project Management Consultant employers who sponsor H-1B visas?
Search on Migrate Mate, which filters Project Management Consultant roles by verified H-1B sponsorship history drawn from DOL LCA disclosure data. Targeting employers with an established H-1B filing track record for consulting roles is more reliable than asking HR teams who may not know their company's sponsorship policy until late in the hiring process.