# Distinguished Technologist – Pre-Sales AI & Data Center Networking

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

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## 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.

Key responsibilities include:

- Acting as a primary technical architect early in complex sales cycles

- Architecting end-to-end networking infrastructure solutions

- Leading solution design and customization

- Delivering compelling demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical presentations

- Engaging with hyperscalers, large enterprises, service providers, and technology partners

- Influencing technical strategy throughout deal validation, solutioning, and initial execution

- Developing best practices, enablement collateral, and architecture playbooks

- Mentoring and providing technical leadership to junior technologists and sales engineering teams

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field, with 15+ years of technical experience in network infrastructure architecture, design, and solutions consulting

- 15+ years of industry experience applying technical expertise with JunOS, EOS, IOS, and hyperscale network architecture frameworks

- Deep hands-on expertise with hyperscaler routing, MPLS traffic engineering, switching, SDN overlays, network fabrics, and DCI solutions

- Familiarity with major networking silicon, hardware platforms, and related software

- SME in virtualization technologies on x86 and scaling using technologies such as DPDK, SR-IOV, SmartNICs, 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

In return, Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers a comprehensive suite of benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing, as well as investment in career development and unconditional inclusion.

## Skills

### Required
- JunOS
- EOS
- IOS
- hyperscale network architecture
- MPLS traffic engineering
- SDN overlays
- network fabrics
- DCI solutions
- virtualization technologies
- DPDK
- SR-IOV
- SmartNICs
- Python
- APIs
- JSON

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