Solutions engineer and architect resume keywords

We counted the skills in 1,167 open solutions engineer and architect job postings from 128 employers, including Databricks, Cloudflare and Zscaler. The ones employers ask for most are sales (87% of postings), product roadmap (27%) and go-to-market (26%). 89% of the postings mention AI, though often in the company's description rather than as a skill the job needs.

Top skills and tools in solutions engineer and architect postings

#KeywordShare of postings
1sales 87%
2product roadmap 27%
3go-to-market 26%
4customer success 24%
5APIs 22%
6onboarding 20%
7AWS 18%
8machine learning 18%
9Python 17%
10automation 17%
11analytics 17%
12SaaS 16%
13product management 15%
14Azure 14%
15marketing 14%
16GCP 14%
17SQL 14%
18LLMs 13%
19compliance 12%
20observability 12%
21quota attainment 11%
22zero trust 10%
23customer experience 9%
24cybersecurity 9%
25enterprise sales 8%
26data engineering 8%
27account management 8%
28cloud security 8%
29Salesforce 8%
30generative AI 7%

Share of the 1,167 postings whose description names the skill (plurals and common spellings, such as “JS” and “JavaScript”, count as one).

Soft skills employers mention

leadership · 16%ownership · 10%collaboration · 9%communication · 9%cross-functional · 6%customer focus · 4%

Show these through results in your bullets (“led a team of six”) rather than listing them as adjectives.

How to use these keywords on your solutions engineer and architect resume

  1. Start with the posting, not this list. These are averages across 1,167 jobs; the one you're applying for has its own priorities. Use this page to spot common gaps, then match the specific posting.
  2. Name skills the way employers do. If you use “sales”, “product roadmap” and “go-to-market”, write those exact words. Applicant tracking systems and recruiters search for them, and a close synonym can be missed.
  3. Put each skill in a bullet that shows a result. Naming customer success inside a bullet about what you achieved with it, with a number where you can, is stronger than listing it alone in a skills section.
  4. Add only what's true. If you've worked with “customer success”, “APIs” and “onboarding” but your resume doesn't say so, add it. If you haven't, leave it out: interviews expose padded resumes quickly.

How these numbers are calculated

Every figure comes from open solutions engineer and architect job postings on MANY Hired, imported from employers' own career pages. For each posting we pick out the skills, tools, certifications and qualifications its description names, then count how many postings ask for each one. A job counts as solutions engineer and architect by its title. Updated November 8, 2026.