Chief Technologist - Hybrid Platforms (HPE)
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Join an award-winning company, recently honoured with six prestigious awards at the UK's CRN's Diversity and Women in the Channel Awards 2023, including Cultural Inclusion Company of the Year and Woman of the Year. We are also proud to be a Work180 company, emphasising our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace.

Join our US OCTO team!

The OCTO is responsible for delivering world-class technology market insights and guidance to our customers and internal stakeholders. We work with sales, services, vendors, customers, partners, analysts and Softcat's leadership teams to ensure that our propositions and capabilities remain relevant now and into the future.

Success. The Softcat Way.

Softcat is a£1billion+ technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. Thisis where to achieve more for your career.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate technology evangelist to own the development of our hybrid platforms proposition for the US market.

Hybrid platforms at Softcat is focused on the supply, modernisation and optimisation of on-premises and public cloud infrastructure. We deliver this by combining technology and services across several connected disciplines.

The core technology disciplines include datacentre modernisation, application modernisation, enterprise backup and cyber resilience, and public cloud migration and optimisation. The core services disciplines include advisory, architecture, implementation, support and managed services.

As Chief Technologist, you'll be responsible for:

• Acting as an ambassador for Softcat's values (passion, fun, intelligence, responsibility, and community)
• Providing US technology market insights and guidance for the Hybrid Platforms TTC, and our multinational leadership
• Identifying common customer problems and opportunities that will gain mainstream technology and services adoption in the US
• Engaging technical audiences alongside sales and services colleagues
• Uncovering opportunities and identifying clear outcomes and success criteria
• Providing technology evangelism
  • Educating technical audiences by explaining the technology and services options
  • Influencing technical audiences by giving them an informed opinion, based on the best fit for their desired outcome
  • Exciting technical audiences by explaining technology direction and market trends

We'd love you to have

• Knowledge, experience, creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, advanced problem solving and humility
• Energising collaborative team player and relationship builder, consistently driven, self-motivated, with a positive attitude
• Outstanding organisational skills, with the ability to co-ordinate and prioritise effectively
• Confidence and credibility in front of external and internal business and technical audiences
• Commercially aware approach to customer engagement and proposition development

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/