Presales Storage Architect Unstructured Data & Hybrid Cloud

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company in; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 183,000 - 378,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks an experienced Storage Architect focused on unstructured workloads, hybrid cloud storage, and AI-driven data pipelines. This high-visibility, customer-facing role influences solution direction and product strategy, ensuring scalable storage for large-scale AI workloads and rapid insight generation.

You will lead workshops, design architectures, and validate performance through POCs, collaborating with product management and executive stakeholders while traveling

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing unstructured storage solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong customer-facing experience with technical solution design and delivery.
• Proven expertise with file protocols NFS & SMB, and S3.
• Solid understanding of object storage technologies and APIs.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing POCs.
• Hands-on with AI data pipelines including inferencing and RAG, along with familiarity in storage tuning for large performance-sensitive unstructured workloads.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel for customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Architect and document enterprise-grade file and object storage solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Lead and execute POCs to evaluate performance, scalability, and integration across platforms.
• Design storage architectures that support emerging AI and data processing workloads, including AI inferencing and RAG pipelines, with attention to throughput, metadata performance, latency optimization, and overall platform performance.
• Work closely with product management to capture customer feedback, translate requirements into product enhancements, and help prioritize the roadmap.
• Provide thought leadership, competitive analysis, and positioning strategies to internal and external stakeholders.
• Present technical solutions to executive and technical audiences.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of unstructured storage trends, cloud storage integration, and emerging technologies.
• Support pre-sales engagements, RFIs/RFPs, and solution justification based on best practices and real-world experience.

Skills

Unstructured storage

Customer-facing

NFS/SMB

S3 storage

POCs

AI data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Dell EMC PowerScale/Isilon

Pure Storage FlashBlade

NetApp ONTAP

NetApp Object Grid

Other enterprise file/object storage platforms

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks an experienced Storage Architect focused on unstructured workloads, hybrid cloud storage, and AI-driven data pipelines. This high-visibility, customer-facing role influences solution direction and product strategy, ensuring scalable storage for large-scale AI workloads and rapid insight generation.

You will lead workshops, design architectures, and validate performance through POCs, collaborating with product management and executive stakeholders while traveling