Data Centre Solutions Architect

First Point Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

First Point Group is recruiting a Data Centre Solutions Architect for its London-based architecture team. This client-facing pre-sales role focuses on designing on-premises infrastructure and translating complex business challenges into clear technical solutions.

You’ll work alongside architects and engineers passionate about data centres, cloud, automation and AI, delivering end-to-end migrations and scalable, resilient designs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure or data centre architecture.
• Hands-on design or deployment across Cisco UCS, Dell PowerEdge, Cisco Nexus/ACI, or related platforms.
• Experience delivering migrations end to end and linking technology to business value.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with clients to understand challenges and design on-prem solutions.
• Data centre network modernisation including spine-leaf, SDN and ACI.
• Automate infrastructure and optimise costs using IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Design resilient, highly available environments and disaster recovery strategies.
• Architect AI-ready infrastructure and advise on power, cooling and rack density.
• Present solutions and business value to technical and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Data centre architecture

Pre-sales / client-facing

Strong communication

Migrations end-to-end

Solutions design

Tools

Cisco UCS

Dell PowerEdge

Nutanix / HyperFlex

VMware Cloud Foundation

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

I'm partnering with a well-respected global technology solutions and services provider to hire a Data Centre Solutions Architect into their London-based architecture team.

This is a client-facing pre-sales role for someone who loves on-premises infrastructure and enjoys turning complex business problems into clear, well-designed technical solutions. You'll join a highly skilled team of architects and engineers who speak at conferences, run meetups and are genuinely passionate about data centres, cloud, automation and AI.

What you'll be doing:

• Working directly with clients to understand their challenges and design the right on-prem solution
• Data centre network modernisation: spine-leaf, SDN and Cisco ACI
• Infrastructure automation and cost optimisation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Designing resilient, highly available environments and DR strategies
• Architecting AI-ready infrastructure (GPU/CPU compute) and advising on power, cooling and rack density
• Presenting solutions and business value to technical and senior stakeholders

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure or data centre architecture
• Hands-on design or deployment experience across some of: Cisco UCS or Dell PowerEdge, Cisco Nexus/ACI, HCI (Nutanix, HyperFlex, Azure Local), Pure Storage or Dell EMC, VMware Cloud Foundation
• Experience architecting and delivering migrations end to end
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to link technology to business outcomes
• Bonus points for CCNP, NVIDIA certifications, Python/REST APIs, or Docker/Kubernetes