Data Centre Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales, AI-Ready Infra

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

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.