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This role has a Data Center focus.\nAnnual compensation: $150K - $190K USD\nWhat you’ll be doing\nActing as a technical sales lead driving opportunities and deals including bringing in the right people and expertise.\nProviding oversight for pre-sales deals, engaging the Solution Architects & Post-Sales Team as needed.\nDeveloping proposals and collaborating with the pre-sales engineering teams to develop final quotes and proposals.\nAttending customer meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for the company and customer.\nProviding qualification of designs or opportunities and producing technical architecture/design documentation.\nActing as design authority for nominated key accounts.\nWorking as technical designer on enterprise scale, mission-critical customer networking projects. \nWorking with peers to advise and recommend on future technology and services.\nWorking closely with vendor partners to keep up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies to manage the ‘cradle to grave’ solution provisions cycle.\nEngaging in and managing customer demonstrations and Proofs of Concept.\nPlaying a pivotal role in ensuring end to end delivery to client.\nWhat you have\n7+ years of experience in designing, developing, configuring, and implementing enterprise networks with diverse solutions from multiple vendors.\n5+ years as a presales solutioning professional.\nExperience with IT delivery methodologies.\nAbility to develop and maintain client engagements/relationships.\nAbility to design in-depth, complex networking solutions.\nDemonstrable ability to provide input into commercial/technical documents and to develop solution specific business cases.\nGood negotiation skills.\nLegal authorization to work in the United States.\nBonus points\nArista or Aruba Certifications a plus.\nEnterprise and data center networking experience preferred.\nWhat you can expect\nThere’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.\nAbout us\nComputacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 21,000 people worldwide. 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