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.

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 product or project.
• Guardrails over point solutions: You’ve defined and enforced reference architectures, decision records (ADR), and stage gates that multiple teams follow—and you’ve protected those standards under pressure.
• Day‑2 reality: You design for upgrades, observability, identity, data protection, and compliance from the start—and you can point to what changed in production because of your guardrails.
• Delivery at scale: You’ve guided pursuit → POC/POV → delivery transitions and stepped in as escalation architect to recover architectural integrity without derailing timelines.
• Documentation‑as‑code: You don’t hand off slideware. You work in Markdown/Sphinx/Git and leave behind runnable, versioned assets (patterns, runbooks, playbooks).
• Influence without authority: You’ve aligned product, presales, delivery, and customer success around constraints and trade‑offs—even when incentives were misaligned.
• High‑pressure, gray‑area execution: You’ve led 2–4 concurrent critical initiatives, where requirements were ambiguous, SLAs were real, and stakes were executive‑level.

Qualifications

• Technical

  • Demonstrated experience leveraging deep technical expertise to architect, deploy, and deliver complex private cloud solutions from initial conception through implementation with extensive experience clarifying and defining ambiguous private cloud requirements.

  • Comfortable navigating undefined problem spaces to deliver innovative customer solutions.

  • Deep expertise across virtualization, engineered systems, compute, storage & storage networking, and datacenter networking for hybrid/private cloud.

  • Proven ability to govern complex, multi‑domain architectures at enterprise scale; mastery of trade‑offs across performance, resilience, security, and TCO.

  • Strong proficiency with documentation‑as‑code (Markdown, Sphinx, Git) and with building reusable architecture assets.

  • Familiarity with cloud operating models (guardrails, automation, FinOps) and AI/ML infrastructure patterns in private cloud is preferred.

• Leadership & Communication

  • Recognized ability to influence without authority across engineering, field, and delivery.

  • Exceptional communication (executive storytelling and deep‑dive clarity) and design review leadership.

  • Track record mentoring senior/principal engineers and solution architects.

• Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

  • 15+ years in architecture/engineering leadership roles with measurable impact on large, multi‑domain solutions and programs.

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

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:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_07

    

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 https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

USD Annual Salary: $173,500.00 - $346,500.00

The estimated job application period closure is January 19 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

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

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