Distinguished Technologist, Private Cloud Solution Success

Distinguished Technologist, Private Cloud Solution Success

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett 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.

Job Description:

   

HPE is seeking a Distinguished Technologist to serve as the architectural design authority for HPE’s private and hybrid cloud offerings. You will partner with architects for Private Cloud offerings (who remain the architecture authorities for their respective solutions) and guide presales, pursuit, and delivery teams to ensure consistent, high‑quality outcomes. Your focus is to set the cross‑solution guardrails, curate the collateral and enablement that the field needs to win and govern designs through stage gates so that what we sell is what we can deliver and support at scale.

Portfolio Architecture & Governance

• Own the solution‑level reference architecture for private/hybrid cloud, ensuring that the customer solutions based on HPE Private Cloud offerings align to common principles and solution guardrails (security, performance, availability, cost, Day‑2 ops).

• Drive design & delivery forums that bring together architects, platform owners, and integration leads to resolve cross‑cutting concerns (identity, networking, observability, data protection, compliance).

• Define design guardrails and decision records (ADR) to promote consistency and reduce technical variance across pursuits and deliveries.

Guidance for Presales, Pursuit & Delivery

• Establish architecture stage gates (e.g., solution & delivery reviews, POC/POV readiness, delivery transition) and review complex deals for architecture alignment, risk, feasibility, and supportability.

• Partner with presales/pursuit teams to shape solution approaches, ensuring alignment with portfolio standards and delivery constraints.

• Partner with delivery and customer success on readiness, rollout patterns, and operational guardrails; intervene as escalation architect on critical issues to restore architectural integrity.

Collateral Factory & Enablement at Scale

• Curate a “one‑stop” portfolio kit: reference architectures, design patterns, integration guides, security/compliance blueprints, sizing/TCO considerations, runbooks, and delivery playbooks.

• Lead a documentation‑as‑code practice (Markdown/Sphinx/Git) so content is versioned, automatable, and reusable; ensure PCE/PCAI solution teams contribute and consume consistently.

• Drive field/delivery enablement (briefings, labs, hands‑on guides) and keep content fresh through a regular cadence tied to roadmap drops and major releases.

Roadmap Influence & Cross‑Portfolio Integration

• Provide structured field‑to‑product feedback (scale limits, UX gaps, integration priorities) that shapes backlog and roadmap, working closely with Product Management and R&D.

• Propose and socialize “north‑star” patterns (e.g., zero‑trust baseline, day‑2 upgrade strategy, infrastructure patterns) that cut across Private Cloud offerings.

Key Interfaces 

• Solution Architects (Private Cloud BU architects): Collaborate as peers; they are solution authorities, you align and integrate across solutions and codify portfolio guardrails.

• Presales & Pursuit Teams: Provide architecture guidance and stage‑gate reviews; ensure win themes align to what we can deliver and support.

• Delivery/Services Architects & PMO: Define handoff criteria and acceptance; manage design variances and escalations during delivery.

• Product Management & R&D: Feed field insights into roadmap; validate designs against product constraints; plan integration milestones.

You will be a strong fit if you can show:

• Portfolio‑level ownership: You’ve served as the design authority for multi‑solution private/hybrid cloud programs, not just a single