{"id":1164297,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hewlett-packard-enterprise-presales-architect-2","title":"Presales Architect","company":{"id":5292,"name":"Hewlett Packard Enterprise","domain":"hpe.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bilbao, Spain"],"countries":["ES"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":57000,"max_usd":136000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":652},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-18T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-18","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T03:14:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Presales ArchitectThis 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:\nHewlett 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.\nJob Description:\nJob Family Definition:\nResponsible for architecting solutions that will achieve customer business outcomes either within a specific technical domain, or across the broader company portfolio (hardware, software, services, and as a service offerings) in combination with all necessary third-party components (e.g. software and integration). Develops and articulates compelling, accurate, and relevant proposals and ensures customer's business and technical requirements are met. Can be aligned to a specific area of technical expertise (e.g., products, solutions, services). Provides technical expertise to sales teams and customers (through sales presentations, product/solution demonstrations, etc.) aimed at gaining the customer mindshare within their domain. These jobs focus on technical selling to customers/partners. May be aligned to specific accounts based on business priority.\nManagement Level Definition:\nContributions impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services regularly and sustainable. Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Provides expertise and partnership to functional and technical project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Exercises significant independent judgment to determine best method for achieving objectives. May provide team leadership and mentoring to others.\nResponsibilities:\nDemonstrates in-depth knowledge in one or more solution domains, company products, services, and solutions as well as the customer’s technical and business environment.\nDevelops 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.\nQuantifies 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.\nProvides input to all global business units to address IT trends, requirements, gaps, or unmet needs.\nTranslates 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.\nCommunicates how the solution value propositions addresses customer business needs.\nTracks leading-edge and emerging technologies.\nContributes to industry development for one or more domains through conferences (content support/presentations, demos, booth support) and industry events, while also monitoring social media.\nIncorporates an understanding of technology trends within the IT industry, as well as the customer’s industry.\nActively gathers and applies competitive intelligence as a critical component of account support.\nDrives the Account Business Planning process, leveraging knowledge of industry trends and the customer’s technical environment.\nParticipates 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.\nProduces in-depth comparative analysis of alternative approaches to meet solution requirements.\nDevelops, configures, and right sizes an optimal workload solution, balancing cost, scope, scale, boundaries, and benefits to deliver superior value and increase the win rate.\nLeverages deep knowledge of partner products and services and adjusts strategies to leverage the relationship between the service provider/partner and the customer.\nSuccessfully transfers knowledge to external partners to deliver effective solutions to customers.\nProactively builds the pipeline by identifying opportunities (e.g., enhancements, unmet or unrecognized needs, up-selling, and cross-selling opportunities) within the account.\nMonitors the account pipeline and nurtures active deals from the opportunity to close.\nUses 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.\nActively participates in sales forecast meetings and provides feedback to accelerate the sales lifecycle.\nDocuments 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.\nBuilds strong professional relationships with customer key executives across the business and industry.\nProactively shares knowledge with peers and helps develop more junior team members.\nEducation and Experience:\nFirst-level university technical degree or equivalent technical qualifications. Advanced degree in technology preferred.\n8-12 years of technical experience in IT with a focus on technical consulting and solution selling\nKnowledge-based as well as 1+ experienced-based relevant industry certifications very strongly preferred.\nEnterprise architecture frameworks and project management methodologies and certifications are helpful, but not required.\nKnowledge and Skills:\nAdvanced experience participating in and leading solution configurations and the creation of demos and proofs-of-concept (POC) to meet customer requirements.\nAdvanced understanding of the company portfolio of products, software, services, solution domain specialization, adjacent solution domain(s), and how they can be combined to address customer needs.\nAdvanced ability to translate aaS and complete ecosystem, differentiated value, solutions, and workloads and ability to prioritize aaS offerings and consumption models that will achieve the customer’s outcomes and greatest return.\nAdvanced understanding of aaS business model variations.\nAdvanced ability to collaborate cross-functionally to ensure consistency of output and meet aaS strategic goals.\nAdvanced written and verbal communication skills, including active listening and storytelling, and the ability to communicate in English and applicable local languages as needed to perform job requirements.\nDemonstrates advanced discussion and persuasion skills used to support company point-of-view, while respectfully questioning and challenging proposed solutions.\nAdvanced business and financial acumen-sales cycle, pipeline growth, reporting, ability to influence, business strategy linkage- with an understanding of functional responsibilities of various customer business roles, including typical KPIs important to, CxOs and line-of-business (LOB) executives; knowledgeable about TCO/ROI concepts and calculations, financial models, and understand how customers generate revenue.\nAdvanced consultative/value selling skills, including, whiteboarding, objection handling, and closing skills to proactively help customers make business decisions.\nAdvanced company business knowledge, technical tools, and standard customer relationship management (CRM) systems and tools.\nAdvanced resource management skills, including how and when to effectively engage SMEs/specialists.\nHands on experience with one or more products, solutions, tools, or services aligned to respective job responsibility.\nAbility to design and develop a playbook for demonstrations or walk throughs of products, solutions, tools, or service.\nAbility to deliver live demonstrations or walk throughs of products, solutions, tools, or service to customers, partners, and other stakeholders.\nAdvanced project and time management knowledge or experience with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including appropriate due diligence.\nAdvanced knowledge of partner offerings and how/when to leverage them for deals within an area of specialization, understanding of the company's go-to-market strategy.\nAdvanced understanding of Geo application of company’s go-to-market strategy as it relates to partners; has broad knowledge of partner offerings, along with how/when to leverage them for deals.\nAdvanced strategic planning and account planning skills, as well as being an expert at using business and technical tools, and standard customer relationship management (CRM) systems.\nAccessibility\nHPE 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.\nNote: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.\nWhat We Can Offer You:\nHealth & Wellbeing\nWe strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.\nPersonal & Professional Development\nWe also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.\nUnconditional Inclusion\nWe are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.\nLet's Stay Connected:\nFollow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE.\nJob:\nSalesJob Level:\nTCP_04HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBTemployer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category,and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. 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