Join an award-winning company, recently honoured with six prestigious awards at CRN's Diversity and Women in the Channel Awards, including Cultural Inclusion Company of the Year and Woman of the Year. We are also proud to be a Work180 company, emphasising our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace.

Join our Architecture Services team! 

Architecture Services is a department comprising three technical disciplines: Hybrid Platforms, NetCon & Cyber, and Workspace.

This role is within the Hybrid Platforms discipline, which focuses on HCI, on-premise datacentre, backup, and cloud-based datacentre solutions across various vendors and technologies.

Success. The Softcat Way. 

Softcat is a £multi billion technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security, and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. This is where to achieve more for your career.  

As an HPE Architect, you will be a key member of Architecture Services, translating clients' business requirements into innovative, thoughtful, and well-designed solutions, either on-premise or in a hybrid-cloud setup.

This role requires you to demonstrate the skills of a subject matter expert, constantly striving to excel in the latest HPE technologies and design methodologies. A core part of the role is showcasing knowledge and understanding across the entire HPE Datacentre portfolio, including compute, storage, HCI, and consumption services.

As HPE Architect, you'll be responsible for: 

• Understanding, scoping, and documenting customers' business and technical requirements.
• Producing designs, configurations, and contributing to solution proposals.
• Underwriting and acting as the technical design authority for solution designs and proposals within your discipline.
• Collaborating with other members of Architecture Services on multi-technology requirements.
• Presenting complex information clearly, persuasively, and elegantly through presentations and whiteboarding.
• Maintaining an accurate and timely updated pipeline and record of work completed through CRM systems.

We'd love you to have

• Demonstrate experience of technical presales and relevant datacentre technologies in HPE, other related technologies is a bonus such as Dell, NetApp, Pure.
• Extensive knowledge of HPE tooling including sizers and configurators.
• Experience conducting customer meetings, whiteboarding and documenting solutions.
• A passion for technology and for making technology work for businesses.
• Excellent communications skills, particularly with customers.
• Excellent time management skills and attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines whilst maintaining the highest quality of output.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

• Hybrid working 
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs 

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.  

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/ 

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.