Private Cloud AI Solution Architect

Private Cloud AI Solution 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:

The Private Cloud AI Solution Architect is responsible for architecting solutions that will achieve customer business outcomes in combination with all necessary third-party components (e.g. software and integration). They develop and articulate compelling, accurate, and relevant proposals and ensures customer's business and technical requirements are met. They provide technical expertise to sales teams and customers (through sales presentations, product/solution demonstrations, etc.) aimed at gaining the customer mindshare within HPE’s Private Cloud AI solutions.

As a Private Cloud AI Solution Architect , you'll play a pivotal role in enabling HPE’s cutting-edge Private Cloud AI turn-key solution , co-engineered with NVIDIA . Your expertise will help enterprises scale AI projects from pilot to production, simplifying their AI journey. You'll combine technical prowess with customer engagement, driving impactful solutions and showcasing HPE's leadership in AI technologies.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Develops compelling customer proposals and critically reviews them, manages the expectations of internal stakeholders and customers, ensuring the meeting of customer’s business and technical requirements are met.
• Quantifies the impact of the business problem(s), positions business value, identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the overall proposed solution to achieve long-term business objectives.
• Provides input to all global business units to address IT trends, requirements, gaps, or unmet needs.
• Translates outcome-based solutions into a functional solution design that aligns to the customers business needs and then translates that functional design into a technical design and architecture that can be scaled to accommodate growth.
• Communicates how the solution value propositions address customer business needs.
• Tracks leading-edge and emerging technologies.
• Contributes to industry development for one or more domains through conferences (content support/presentations, demos, booth support) and industry events, while also monitoring social media.
• Incorporates an understanding of technology trends within the IT industry, as well as the customer’s industry.
• Actively gathers and applies competitive intelligence as a critical component of account support.
• Drives the Account Business Planning process, leveraging knowledge of industry trends and the customer’s technical environment.
• Participates in deep-dive discussions and partners with the account team to build customer relationships at all levels by advocating and presenting technical strategies for a customer's transformation.
• Produces in-depth comparative analysis of alternative approaches to meet solution requirements.
• Develops, configures, and right sizes an optimal workload solution, balancing cost, scope, scale, boundaries, and benefits to deliver superior value and increase the win rate.
• Leverages deep knowledge of partner products and services and adjusts strategies to leverage the relationship between the service provider/partner and the customer.
• Successfully transfers knowledge to external partners to deliver effective solutions to customers.
• Proactively builds the pipeline by identifying opportunities (e.g., enhancements, unmet or unrecognized needs, up-selling, and cross-selling opportunities) within the account.
• Monitors the account pipeline and nurtures active deals from the opportunity to close.
• Uses pipeline insights to help prioritize activities in a way that ensures time, and resources are invested wisely in pursuit of deals with the highest potential.
• Actively participates in sales forecast meetings and provides feedback to accelerate the sales lifecycle.
• Documents ongoing work (activities, tasks) throughout the sales cycle using specific tools and resources and sharing best practices with peers and partners to collaborate more effectively.
• Builds strong professional relationships with customer key executives across the business and industry.
• Proactively shares knowledge with peers and helps develop more junior team members.

Education and Experience:

• First-level university technical degree or equivalent technical qualifications
• 2-4 years of technical experience in IT with a focus on technical selling
• Knowledge-based and experienced-based relevant industry certifications are preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Intermediate level experience participating in solution configurations and overall architecture design along with assisting in creating demos and proofs-of-concept (POC) to meet customer requirements.
• Intermediate level understanding of the company portfolio of products, software, and services and how these fit into solution domain specialization.
• Intermediate level understanding of aaS business models, differentiated value, solutions, and workloads, along with the ability to prioritize aaS offerings and consumption models that will achieve the customer’s outcomes.
• Intermediate-level written and verbal communication skills, including emphasizing, collaborating, active listening and storytelling, and ability to communicate in English and applicable local languages (both in-person and virtual) as needed to perform job requirements.
• Demonstrates intermediate-level discussion and persuasion skills, as well as respectfully questioning and challenging proposed solutions.
• Intermediate-level business and financial acumen—sales cycle, pipeline growth, reporting, ability to influence, business strategy linkage—with an awareness of functional responsibilities of various customer business roles.
• Intermediate consultative and value selling skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, objection handling, and closing skills to proactively help customers make business decisions.
• Intermediate-level company business knowledge, technical tools, and standard customer relationship management (CRM) systems and tools.
• Hands on experience with one or more products, solutions, tools, or services aligned to respective job responsibility.
• Ability to deliver live demonstrations or walk throughs of products, solutions, tools or services to customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Intermediate-level project and time management skills or experience with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including appropriate due diligence.
• Intermediate-level knowledge of partner offerings and how/when to leverage them for deals within an area of specialization.
• Intermediate level knowledge of different types of partners and products, relevant to assigned solution domain and understanding of the company's go-to-market strategy.

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Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here .

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