# Presales Storage Architect – Unstructured Data

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Winnersh, Berkshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re seeking an experienced Storage Architect with strong expertise in unstructured data, AI and analytics workloads, and modern file and object storage architectures. This is a highly visible, customer-facing role with significant influence on solution design, customer adoption, and product strategy.

The ideal candidate combines deep storage fundamentals with a strong understanding of how data moves through modern AI and analytics environments. You will help customers design, size, validate, and optimize storage architectures supporting AI inference, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), analytics, data lakes, and other data-intensive workloads.

**Responsibilities:**

- Partner with customers to architect scalable file and S3 object storage solutions for AI, analytics, and enterprise workloads.

- Understand application data flows, data lifecycle requirements, and performance characteristics to recommend the right storage architecture.

- Size storage solutions based on capacity, throughput, latency, network bandwidth, growth, availability, and workload requirements.

- Lead technical workshops, assessments, benchmarks, and hands-on proofs of concept (POCs).

- Provide strong subject matter expertise in S3 object storage and foundational knowledge of NFS and SMB.

- Apply knowledge of AI inference, RAG, data lakes, and analytics pipelines to storage architecture and design decisions.

- Collaborate with product management and engineering to translate customer requirements into product and roadmap priorities.

- Bring competitive knowledge and market awareness to customer discussions and internal strategy.

- Travel as needed to support customers, partners, and strategic opportunities.

**Required Qualifications:**

- 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise storage and data architectures.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- Strong customer-facing architecture, consulting, or presales experience.

- Strong foundational knowledge of S3 object storage, including buckets, objects, APIs, authentication, data protection, and common application integration patterns.

- Working knowledge of enterprise file protocols, particularly NFS and SMB.

- Experience sizing storage solutions based on capacity, performance, growth, network, and application requirements.

- Demonstrated ability to plan, configure, execute, and troubleshoot technical POCs.

- Understanding of modern AI and analytics data pipelines, including AI inference, RAG, vector databases, data lakes/Lakehouse’s, and large-scale analytics workloads.

- Ability to discuss storage within the broader context of data flow, data lifecycle, data management, protection, governance, and application consumption.

- Strong understanding of storage performance concepts including throughput, latency, IOPS, metadata performance, concurrency, and network bandwidth.

- Excellent communication, presentation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

- Willingness and ability to travel for customer engagements.

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

- Investment in career development and growth.

- Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.

## Skills

### Required
- storage architecture
- unstructured data
- AI
- analytics
- file and object storage
- S3 object storage
- NFS
- SMB
- data pipelines
- storage performance

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- hybrid and multi-cloud data architectures
- modern AI and analytics platforms
- technical presales
- consulting
- solution architecture

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