AI & Analytics Storage Architect – Hybrid Presales

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Wokingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks an experienced Storage Architect to design enterprise-scale file and S3 object storage solutions for AI, analytics, and data-intensive workloads. The role combines customer-facing consulting with hands-on architecture, POC leadership, and collaboration with product teams.

You will size architectures, validate performance, and translate business requirements into scalable storage designs across on-prem and cloud environments. Occasional travel is 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.
• Experience in technical presales, consulting, solution architecture, or customer advisory roles.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to architect scalable file and S3 object storage solutions for AI, analytics, and enterprise workloads.
• Understand data flows, lifecycle requirements, and performance to recommend 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 POCs.
• Provide expertise in S3 object storage and foundational knowledge of NFS and SMB.
• Apply AI inference, RAG, data lakes, and analytics pipelines to storage design decisions.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to translate requirements into product priorities.
• Present architectures and technical guidance to executive and technical audiences.
• Travel as needed to support customers, partners, and strategic opportunities.
• Architect and document enterprise-scale file and object storage solutions.
• Analyze customer data flows, workloads, growth, and data management requirements.
• Lead and execute hands-on POCs validating performance and scalability.
• Design storage architectures for AI inference, RAG, analytics, and data lake workloads.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable product feedback and roadmap recommendations.
• Provide competitive analysis and solution guidance to sales and technical teams.

Skills

S3 object storage

NFS

SMB

AI inference

RAG

Data pipelines

Vector databases

Data lakes

Lakehouse

Performance benchmarking

Cloud storage

Storage sizing

POCs

Presales experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Dell PowerScale

ObjectScale

NetApp ONTAP

StorageGRID

VAST Data

Scality

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks an experienced Storage Architect to design enterprise-scale file and S3 object storage solutions for AI, analytics, and data-intensive workloads. The role combines customer-facing consulting with hands-on architecture, POC leadership, and collaboration with product teams.

You will size architectures, validate performance, and translate business requirements into scalable storage designs across on-prem and cloud environments. Occasional travel is required.