Storage Presales Technical Architect - UKI Defence

Storage Presales Technical Architect - UKI Defence 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: We are looking for our next Storage Presales Architect to join the growing Data Solutions team, supporting HPE's UK Public Sector Defence business. This is a highly visible role focused on helping defence organisations, government agencies, and strategic technology partners unlock the value of their data and infrastructure investments. Working across a broad spectrum of defence and national security customers, you will engage with business and technology leaders to shape strategy, solve complex challenges, and deliver mission critical outcomes. This is an exciting time to join the team. As defence investment continues to grow, with significant funding being directed towards digital transformation, cyber resilience, and modern data capabilities, Defence remains HPE UK's largest Public Sector sub-vertical and represents a major growth opportunity for the business. We are looking for a proactive, high energy individual who thrives in a dynamic environment and enjoys influencing across customers, partners, and internal teams. You will help drive opportunities from early discovery through to successful adoption, creating meaningful impact across some of the UK's most strategically important organisations. The ideal candidate will bring expertise across: • Enterprise storage and data management • Private and hybrid cloud architectures • Virtualisation and modern workloads • Structured and unstructured data platforms • Data protection, cyber resilience, and disaster recovery • Software-defined and hyperconverged infrastructure Combining strong technical knowledge with business acumen, the successful candidate will translate complex requirements into secure, outcome focused solutions, acting as a trusted advisor to customers and partners while helping accelerate growth across HPE's Defence business.   Job Family Definition: Responsible for architecting solutions that will achieve customer business outcomes either within a specific technical domain, or across the broader company portfolio (hardware, software, services, and as a service offerings) in combination with all necessary third-party components (e.g. software and integration). Develops and articulates compelling, accurate, and relevant proposals and ensures customer's business and technical requirements are met. Can be aligned to a specific area of technical expertise (e.g., products, solutions, services). Provides technical expertise to sales teams and customers (through sales presentations, product/solution demonstrations, etc.) aimed at gaining the customer mindshare within their domain. These jobs focus on technical selling to customers/partners. May be aligned to specific accounts based on business priority. Management Level Definition: Contributions impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services regularly and sustainable. Applies advanced subject matter knowle