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The role serves as the technical authority for Huawei FusionDC, SmartLi UPS, iCooling, OceanStor, CloudFabric and Huawei Cloud solutions, translating customer requirements into compliant, commercially viable and implementable architectures.\nThe incumbent partners with Sales, Business Development, Huawei SA pre-sales teams, Nexio engineering, project management and customers to produce high-quality HLDs, LLDs, BoQs, tender responses and technical presentations. Solutions must meet customer outcomes, Nexio profitability expectations, POPIA, OHS, IEC and relevant NEC standards, while ensuring delivery teams have the documentation and technical sign-off required to implement successfully.\nThis role requires strong technical depth, disciplined documentation, consultative engagement with customers and the ability to create reusable Huawei reference architectures, internal enablement material and refresh paths that strengthen Nexio’s Huawei capability.ROLE REQUIREMENT\nDesign end-to-end Huawei solutions for RFPs, tenders, commercial estimates and client workshops.\nProduce HLDs, LLDs, BoQs and compliant technical response documents.\nValidate power, cooling, space and network requirements for FusionDC and SmartLi deployments.\nEnsure designs meet POPIA, OHS, IEC and applicable client NEC standards.\nPartner with BDMs and Sales to facilitate Huawei technical workshops, demos and client presentations.\nLead PoCs, demonstrations and lab validation in Nexio DC labs.\nProvide competitor positioning and analysis for Huawei against Vertiv, Eaton, Cisco and Dell alternatives.\nHand over approved designs to Nexio Project Managers and Engineers with clear implementation guidance.\nProvide technical sign-off and issue resolution support during implementation.\nCreate reference architectures, standard build packs and repeatable design artefacts for Nexio Huawei solutions.\nEngage Huawei SA pre-sales, R&D and HQ teams for complex solution designs and escalations.\nMaintain Huawei certifications, lab access and current knowledge of the Huawei solution portfolio.\nProvide product-gap feedback and roadmap requests to Huawei.\nAdditional Information:\nIndividuals at this level have fully developed knowledge of the business, marketplace and clients. Is recognised as an expert in own area within the organization\nInterprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices. Provides technical guidance to more junior levels of staff\nAble to build strong interpersonal relationships with peers, brand leaders, and other senior management throughout the company\nAble to be a “big picture” thinker\nEncouraging to team and staff; able to mentor and lead\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills\nAble to align multiple strategies and ideas\nConfident in producing and presenting work\nIn-depth understanding of the IT and Telecommunications industry\nTECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES\nStrong technical documentation, architecture presentation and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to validate data centre power, cooling, space, network, storage and cloud design dependencies.\nCommercial awareness to support accurate BoQs, licensing, assumptions, exclusions and cost-effective solution design.\nCompetence in facilitating PoCs, demos, lab validations and technical workshops.\nUnderstanding of POPIA, OHS, IEC and customer NEC compliance considerations.\nAbility to work under pressure, manage multiple opportunities and meet proposal timelines.\nQUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE\nMatric and a relevant Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent qualification.\n2-5 years’ experience in Solution Architecture, Pre-Sales, Data Centre Engineering or related technical design roles.\nHands-on experience with at least two Huawei portfolio areas: FusionDC, UPS5000/SmartLi, iCooling, OceanStor, CloudFabric or Huawei Cloud.\nTechnical knowledge across data centre power, cooling, networking, storage, virtualisation and BMS/DCIM environments.\nHuawei HCIP/HCIE certification preferred; 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