Senior Data Center Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales

Supermicro; Wayne (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Supermicro seeks a Staff Data Center Solutions Architect to drive data center design, build, and project management for global IT opportunities. You will work with customers from ground to executive level, manage bids, POCs, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, performant solutions.

Responsibilities include designing data center architectures, collaborating with sales, securing contracts, and guiding implementations across facilities, power, cooling, and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years relevant experience within IT, specifically within Compute, Storage, and/or Networking.
• Good solution design and diagnostic skills.
• Familiarity with range of Operating Systems, Storage Software, and/or Network Operating Systems would be beneficial.
• Strong background with compute and storage hardware and architecture.
• Good ability to communicate ideas and solutions to a range of client type.
• Experience with customer-facing engagement.

Responsibilities

• Data Center Solution Design: Collaborate with customers to understand data center requirements and develop comprehensive data center solutions, Design and architect data center infrastructure to meet scalability, availability, and performance requirements
• Facility Build Expertise: Assist customers as they execute on the construction and commissioning of data center facilities, including power, cooling, and physical security infrastructure
• Sales Collaboration: Work closely with sales teams to develop superior customer service relationships with prospects, ensuring seamless collaboration to close deals successfully.
• Customer Support: Provide technical pre-sales and occasional post-sales assistance to customers. Enrich the Supermicro offering by evangelizing technology and Supermicro portfolio within customers.
• Develop Bids: Develop and review systems solutions, technical bid responses and presentations. Respond to RFI, RFP, etc... Work with customers in negotiation of contracts, pricing, and service level agreements with vendors to optimize cost-effectiveness and performance
• Solution Development: Deliver POC to end-users, and manage POCs end to end. Visit on-site facilities and operations to enable solution integration and issue resolution.
• Cross-Functional Teamwork: Collaborate with other departments within the organization to enhance the effectiveness of business strategies and ensure a cohesive approach to enterprise client engagement.

Skills

Solution design

Data center architecture

Customer-facing engagement

Cross-functional teamwork

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or related field

Job description

Supermicro seeks a Staff Data Center Solutions Architect to drive data center design, build, and project management for global IT opportunities. You will work with customers from ground to executive level, manage bids, POCs, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, performant solutions.

Responsibilities include designing data center architectures, collaborating with sales, securing contracts, and guiding implementations across facilities, power, cooling, and security.