Technical Presales Professional – HPE

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119Job Description:

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive,collaborativeand innovative company?

Do you enjoyworking as part of an enthusiastic, passionate,and collaborative team?

Join our Architecture Services team!

Architecture Services is a department made up of three technical disciplines, Hybrid Platforms, NetCon & Cyber and Hybrid Workspace.

This role would sit within the Hybrid Platforms principle which focuses on HCI, on-premise Datacentre, backup and cloud based Datacentre solutions across a number of 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 Presales Professional – HPE, 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 HPE technologies and design methodologies. Being able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding across the HPE Datacentre portfolio (compute, storage, HCI, consumption services etc) is a core part of the role.

As a Presales Professional – HPE, you’ll be responsible for:

• Helping to understand, scope and document customers’ business and technical requirements.
• Producing designs, configurations, and input into solutions proposals.
• Working with other members of Architecture Services on multi-technology requirements.
• Presenting information clearly, persuasively, and elegantly orally through presentations.
• Maintaining an accurate and timely updated pipeline and record of work completed through Services CRM systems.
• Working with our internal HPE BDM teams and the vendor to maintain a close working relationship to further develop opportunities for team development and training.

We’d love you to have

• Demonstrate experience of technical presales and relevant datacentre technologies in HPE, other related technologies are a bonus such as Dell, NetApp, Pure.
• Knowledge of HPE tooling including sizers and configurators.
• Experience of conducting customer meetings, whiteboarding and documenting solutions would be advantageous.
• A passion for technology and for making technology work for businesses.
• Excellent communications skills, particularly with customers.
• Excellent time management skills and attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines whilst maintaining the highest quality of output.
• Strong organisational and prioritization skills.
• Industry recognised qualifications or certifications consummate to the role (I.e. HPE ATP, ASE) are strongly preferred.

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. Anyinformation 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/our-culture/

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Location: Marlow, Buckinghamshire