Principal Presales Architect - Federal Clearance Required

Principal Presales Architect - Federal Clearance RequiredThis role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

The Federal Solution Architect- Cleared will be supporting a federal agency in Maryland. The role will expect the candidate to be able to travel to on-site meetings at the customer location 2-3X a week, customer is located in the Washington DC area. It will also require a TS/SCI with FSP clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates unique mastery within the company in one or more solution domains as well as the customer's technical and business environment.

• Orchestrates the design of complex proposals to deliver and communicate tangible business value to customers.

• Mitigates risk to the company by managing both customer and company stakeholder expectations.

• Critical review proposal, applies market intelligence and thought leadership to translate the functional view into a technical view, enhancing proposed workload-optimized solutions.

• Provides input to all global business units to address key end-customer IT trends, requirements, gaps, or unmet needs.

• Leads the team to develop and present high-level, unique, and imaginative outcome-based solutions to customer business challenges, translating the business needs of the customer into a functional solution design aligned to those needs.

• Communicates HPE’s end solution value propositions in the language of the customer and demonstrates how the proposition aligns to business outcomes and customer needs.

• Develops and maintains adjacent technology knowledge, along with in-depth knowledge of current and emerging technologies and trends.

• Contributes to the industry for one or more domains with an active presence at conferences (content support/presentations, demos, booth support), social media, business events, etc.

• Monitors changing competitive landscape (emerging competitors, start-ups etc.).

• Drives the Account Business Planning process, leverage knowledge of industry trends and the customer’s technical environment.

• Facilitates and leads deep-dive discussions with the client and accounts teams to build customer relationships, understand business needs, evaluate the customer's ecosystem and advocate and present technical strategies for a customer's transformation.

• Identifies acceptable technical solution trade-offs, risks, and suggests possible remediation.

• Drives collaboration among internal account teams, sets direction, provides guidance, and engages the full portfolio of partners to build effective solution strategies aligned to customer's technical and business challenges.

• Successfully transfers knowledge to external partners to deliver an effective solution to the customer.

• Proactively builds the pipeline by identifying opportunities (e.g., enhancements, unmet or unrecognized needs, up-selling, and cross-selling opportunities) within the account.

• Monitors the account pipeline and nurtures active deals from the opportunity to close.

• Uses 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.

• Actively participates in sales forecast meetings and provides feedback to accelerate the sales lifecycle.

• Documents 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.

• Engages with and builds consultative presence and advisory influence with VPs, CxO, and line-of-business (LOB) management and customer thought leaders.

• Anticipates customer needs and proactively engages partners and resources to design innovative solutions and generate customer demand.

• Proactively shares knowledge with peers and actively helps develop knowledge and expertise within the Presales community.

Education and Experience:

• TS/SCI with FSP (Full Scope Poly) clearance required

• Must possess extensive knowledge of customer's mission and requirements and understand competitive landscape.

• Advanced degree in technology or related field preferred, or equivalent technical qualifications

• 2+ years of experience supporting sales, and end users to build or develop techical enterprise solutions.

• 12+ years of technical experience in IT with a focus on technical consulting and solution selling;

• 2+ Industry standard relevant technology certifications or equivalent experience expected.

• Enterprise architecture frameworks and project management methodologies and certifications are helpful, but not required.

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We 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.

Unconditional Inclusion

We 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.

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Job:

Sales

Job Level:

TCP_04

States with Pay Range Requirement

The expected salary/wage range for a U.S.-based hire filling this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. If this is a sales role, then the listed salary range reflects combined base salary and target-level sales compensation pay. If this is a non-sales role, then the listed salary range reflects base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered. Information about employee benefits offered can be found at .

USD Annual Salary: $146,000.00 - $343,000.00

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

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