Description
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Distinguished Technologist to lead architecture and solution design for AI/ML Networking Infrastructure, Data Center, and WAN networking opportunities globally.
The successful candidate will have deep technical expertise, experience, creative problem-solving, and strong customer engagement skills to influence and shape multi-billion-dollar deals.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a primary technical architect early in complex sales cycles, working independently or with Sales Engineers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Architect end-to-end networking infrastructure solutions with strong expertise in data center, AI networking, hyperscale environments, and WAN technologies.
- Lead solution design and customization, orchestrating input from specialists, systems engineers, and product teams to meet customer requirements.
- Deliver compelling demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical presentations that clearly articulate HPE Networking's value in customer use cases.
- Engage with hyperscalers, large enterprises, service providers, and technology partners to co-design solutions addressing emerging challenges across industries and workloads.
- Influence technical strategy throughout deal validation, solutioning, and initial execution, ensuring smooth handoff to delivery teams.
- Develop best practices, enablement collateral, and architecture playbooks to scale solutions internally and with partners.
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior technologists and sales engineering teams.
- Navigate and adapt through complex technology transitions, maintaining thought leadership in networking innovations and industry trends.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required, advanced degree preferred.
- 20+ years of technical experience in network infrastructure Architecture, design, and solutions consulting, designing large-scale AI, Cloud Data Center in Hyperscale networking environments.
- 20+ years of industry experience applying technical expertise with JunOS, EOS, IOS, and hyperscale network architecture frameworks. JNCIE or equivalent certification.
- Experience presenting and driving technology thought leadership at relevant industry events, and experience driving standards and other forward-looking initiatives with relevant standards bodies such as OCP, IETF, UEC, IEEE...
- Deep hands-on expertise with hyperscaler routing, MPLS traffic engineering, switching, SDN overlays (EVPN/VXLAN, MP-BGP), Network Fabrics and DCI solutions, network provisioning, automation, and monitoring (Apstra, Paragon, NETCONF/REST APIs, YANG).
- Familiarity with major networking silicon, hardware platforms, and related software (e.g., Juniper, Arista, Cisco, SONiC, Cumulus, etc.).
- SME in Virtualization technologies on x86 and scaling using technologies such as DPDK, SR-IOV, SmartNIC, etc.
- Proven success in complex pre-sales roles, with a strong ability to build relationships with senior technical and C-Level stakeholders.
- Experience with programming/scripting (Python, APIs, JSON, etc.) to enable solution integration and automation.
- Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence diverse technical and business audiences.
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.