Channel Storage Presales Architect, Business Development

Channel Storage Presales Architect, Business Development This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: Storage Solution Architect with strong expertise in enterprise storage infrastructures, data protection solutions, and modern data management platforms. The successful candidate will support enterprise customers and business partners in designing innovative architectures focused on cyber resilience, data protection, AI readiness, and infrastructure modernization. The ideal candidate combines consulting skills, architectural design expertise, and pre-sales experience, helping customers define the most effective technology solutions to meet their business and operational objectives. Key Responsibilities • Assist customers in their digital transformation and AI adoption journeys. • Applies advanced knowledge of the company's portfolio, articulating proposals, and ensuring customers’ business and technical needs are being met. • Translates the functional design of a solution into a technical design and architecture that can be scaled to accommodate growth. • Tracks industry trends and emerging technologies (as well as competitor offerings and activities) leveraging this knowledge with the customer’s technical environment. • Contributes to industry developments through contributions (content support, presentations, demos, booth support) at conferences, industry events, and utilizing social media. • Delivers optimal results, balancing costs, scope, scale, and benefits to deliver superior value. • Collaborates proactively with account team leadership (HPE and Partners) to develop and communicate key value propositions, negotiation points, and identify overlooked opportunities within assigned accounts; uses expertise to lead the creation of complex solutions. • Develops and nurtures professional working relationships with the customer technical teams , business Partner based on an understanding of the customer's ecosystem, business needs, and how HPE can deliver value and business outcomes. • Proactively shares knowledge with peers and helps develop more junior team members. • Design enterprise storage, data protection, and disaster recovery architectures. • Define backup, cyber resilience, and data protection solutions. • Prepare high-level and low-level solution architectures, sizing documents, and Bills of Materials (BoMs). • Support Proof of Concepts (PoCs), benchmarks, and technical demonstrations.   Knowledge and Required Skills • Well-developed, strong working knowledge with the as-a-service (aaS) business model, business value, complete ecosystem, and outcomes that drive aaS strategic goals within own domain. • Well-developed consultative and value selling skills, including whiteboarding, objection handling, and closing skills to proactively help customers make business decisions. • Ability to deliver live demonstrations or walk throughs of products, solutions, tools, or services to customers, partners, and other stakeholde