Senior Storage and Software Presales Architect

Senior Storage and Software Presales Architect 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: 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 have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent.  Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization. Responsibilities: • Demonstrates unique mastery within the company in one or more solution domains as well as the customer's technical and business environment. • Orchestrates the design of complex proposals to deliver and communicate tangible business value to customers. • Mitigates risk to the company by managing both customer and company stakeholder expectations. • Critical review proposal, applies market intelligence and thought leadership to translate the functional view into a technical view, enhancing proposed workload-optimized solutions. • Provides input to all global business units to address key end-customer IT trends, requirements, gaps, or unmet needs. • Leads the team to develop and present high-level, unique, and imaginative outcome-based solutions to customer business challenges, translating the business needs of the customer into a functional solution design aligned to those needs. • Communicates HPE’s end solution value propositions in the language of the customer and demonstrates how the proposition aligns to business outcomes and customer needs. • Develops and maintains adjacent technology knowledge, along with in-depth knowledge of current and emerging technologies and trends. • Contributes to the industry for one or more domains with an active presence at conferences (content support/presentations, demos, booth support), social media, business event