Senior Architect - 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 Architecture Services team!Architecture Services is a department made up of four technical disciplines, Hybrid Platforms , NetCon & Cyber , Data & AI, and Workspace.This role would sit within the Hybrid Platforms principle which focuses on HCI, D atacentre , backup and cloud - based Datacentre solutions across a several different vendors and technologies.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. This is where to achieve more for your career.As a Senior Hybrid Architect, you will work as a member of Architecture Services to translate a client's business requirements into innovative, thoughtful, and well-designed solutions either on premise or in a hybrid-cloud setup.The role requires demonstrating the skills of a subject matter expert, which means constantly striving to be at the top of your game in the latest technologies and design methodologies. Being able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding across the whole gamut of the Datacentre portfolio (compute, storage, HCI, consumption services etc) is a core part of the role.As a Senior Solutions Achitect, you'll be responsible for:* Helping to understand, scope and document customers' business and technical requirements.* Producing designs, configurations, and input into solutions proposals.* Underwriting and acting as technical design authority for solution designs and proposals in your discipline.* Working with other members of Architecture Services are multi-technology requirements.* Presenting complex information clearly, persuasively, and elegantly orally through presentations and whiteboarding.We'd love you to have* Demonstrate experience of technical presales and relevant datacentre technologies , such as : HPE, Dell, Nutanix , VMware, Pure , Rubrik, Cisco, and Azure.* Knowledge of relevant tooling including sizers and configurators.* Experience of conducting customer meetings, whiteboarding and documenting solutions .* A passion for technology and for making technology work for businesses .Work in a way that works for youWe 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 offsWorking with usWherever 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 usTo 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