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The primary objective of the ISA III is to strategically influence revenue growth, profitability, technical win rate, and customer success throughout the sales cycle.\nThe Datacenter ISA III serves as a trusted advisor to customers, account executives, and internal stakeholders by designing and recommending solutions spanning rack and blade servers; compute platforms; converged and hyperconverged infrastructure; power, cooling, and physical datacenter infrastructure; hybrid cloud integration; and related professional and managed services. This role combines strong technical knowledge with business acumen to help customers modernize datacenter infrastructure, improve reliability and operational efficiency, and support future growth.\nThe ideal candidate has deep datacenter infrastructure expertise and a record of leading highly complex, strategic customer-facing presales engagements, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive-level audiences.\n\nResponsibilities\nThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nLead complex and executive-level technical discovery sessions to identify customer business objectives, current-state infrastructure, data-growth patterns, availability requirements, recovery objectives, security considerations, and solution constraints.\nArchitect and defend complex, multi-vendor server, compute, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, power and cooling, and hybrid datacenter solutions that align with customer goals, technical standards, and budget requirements.\nPartner with sales and presales leadership to shape account strategies, qualify strategic opportunities, position differentiated solutions, address technical and business risk, and advance complex opportunities through the sales cycle.\nCreate and validate Bills of Materials (BoMs), technical proposals, solution diagrams, quotes, and supporting documentation for multi-vendor server, compute, converged infrastructure, and datacenter solutions.\nServe as a senior subject matter expert and escalation point for rack and blade servers, processor and memory sizing, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, power and cooling, physical datacenter design, consumption models, and hybrid cloud integration.\nLead executive briefings, technical presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, assessments, whiteboarding sessions, and architecture reviews for customers and internal stakeholders.\nReview designs, configurations, licensing, support requirements, and quotes to ensure technical accuracy and alignment with documented customer needs.\nIdentify opportunities to expand customer relationships through compute expansion, infrastructure modernization, lifecycle refresh, consolidation, hybrid cloud integration, professional services, and managed services.\nBuild strategic relationships with vendor partners, distributors, services leaders, and senior technical resources to develop differentiated customer solutions and resolve complex design questions.\nProvide thought leadership by maintaining current knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, competitive offerings, vendor programs, and product roadmaps.\nMentor ISA-I and ISA-II resources through structured coaching, design reviews, technical enablement, documentation standards, and practical guidance on complex presales engagements.\nChampion professional and managed services portfolio, ensuring services are incorporated into strategic solution recommendations and customer roadmaps where appropriate.\nProvide sales-facing training, technical enablement, solution presentations, and reusable guidance that strengthen the broader presales organization.\n\n Education RequirementBA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nCertification Requirements\nMultiple major technical vendor certifications in server, compute, datacenter infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure, power and cooling, or hybrid cloud are required, including at least two current technical credentials from strategic vendors.\nPreferred certifications include current technical credentials from Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Nutanix, NVIDIA, Vertiv, APC, Microsoft, AWS, or another strategic storage and data-protection vendor.\nAdditional technical certifications that strengthen multi-vendor solution design, hybrid cloud integration, datacenter modernization, or services positioning are highly desirable.\nMaintain assigned certifications and complete additional vendor competencies needed to support strategic partnerships and business priorities.\n\n Required ExperienceMinimum of 9+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, server, compute, datacenter implementation, engineering, architecture, or technical support roles.\nMinimum of 6+ years in a field- or customer-facing presales, sales, sales engineering, consulting, or similar role.\nDemonstrated experience designing server, compute, converged infrastructure, and datacenter solutions across multiple technologies or vendors.\nExpert-level understanding of server components and sizing, rack and blade systems, processor and memory requirements, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, power and cooling, virtualization dependencies, consumption models, and hybrid datacenter architectures.\nDemonstrated ability to lead complex discovery, compare competing architectures and consumption models, quantify technical and business tradeoffs, and develop defensible enterprise solution recommendations.\nExcellent written, verbal, presentation, and customer communication skills.\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and executive-level audiences.\nProven ability to manage multiple opportunities and priorities in a fast-paced sales environment.\nAdvanced analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, executive 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