AI & Unstructured Data Storage Architect (Presales)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Winnersh; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Winnersh, UK, is seeking an experienced Storage Architect specializing in unstructured data, AI and analytics workloads. This is a hybrid role with an expectation to work from an HPE office about two days per week.

You will lead architecture design for file and S3 stores, run hands‑on POCs, collaborate with product teams, and advise customers on data lifecycle and performance. Travel as needed to support opportunities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise storage architectures.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• Strong customer-facing architecture, consulting, or presales experience.
• Strong knowledge of S3 object storage, including buckets, objects, APIs.
• Experience with enterprise file protocols, particularly NFS and SMB.
• Experience sizing storage based on capacity, performance, growth, network.
• Ability to plan, configure, execute, and troubleshoot technical POCs.
• Understanding of AI and analytics data pipelines including AI inference and data lakes.
• Ability to discuss storage within data flow, lifecycle, governance and application consumption.
• Strong understanding of throughput, latency, IOPS, metadata performance.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable file and S3 object storage solutions for AI, analytics, and enterprise workloads.
• Lead technical workshops, assessments, benchmarks and hands-on POCs.
• Provide product feedback and roadmap recommendations based on customer requirements.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to translate needs into roadmaps.
• Present architectures and technical recommendations to executive and technical audiences.
• Support strategic presales engagements, RFIs/RFPs, solution sizing and justification.

Skills

Storage architecture

Customer-facing

Presales

POCs

AI workloads

S3 object storage

NFS

SMB

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Info Tech/Engineering

Tools

S3 object storage

NFS

SMB

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Winnersh, UK, is seeking an experienced Storage Architect specializing in unstructured data, AI and analytics workloads. This is a hybrid role with an expectation to work from an HPE office about two days per week.

You will lead architecture design for file and S3 stores, run hands‑on POCs, collaborate with product teams, and advise customers on data lifecycle and performance. Travel as needed to support opportunities.