Senior Field PLM Architect, Campus & Branch Solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 179,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Professional development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking a Principal Architect for Campus & Branch to lead expert architecture and technical strategy across Mist solutions. You will partner with Field PLMs, Territory Managers and Engineers to win complex opportunities, validate designs, remove blockers and safeguard the customer install base.

The role requires senior technical leadership, hands-on architecture across Mist Wireless, Switching and Fabric, and the ability to scale capabilities within the field

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise networking and pre-sales experience.
• Expert knowledge of campus wired and wireless networking.
• Deep understanding of EVPN/VXLAN and modern campus fabric architectures.
• Strong knowledge of identity/NAC, segmentation, branch/WAN and AI-driven network operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical discovery, architecture workshops, POCs and customer-facing design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Engage early with Field PLM and account teams on strategic and technically complex opportunities.
• Lead architecture discussions, whiteboarding sessions and solution design.
• Collaborate with Field PLM and account teams to develop the technical win strategy.
• Lead or guide complex proofs of concept, migration planning and architecture validation.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, product gaps and customer objections early in the sales cycle.
• Support competitive positioning and displacement strategies where architecture is a differentiator.
• Drive customer architecture acceptance and confidence in HPE Mist solutions.
• Evangelize and be a thought leader for HPE’s AI-Driven, Self-Driving solutions.
• Mentor Field PLMs and Systems Engineers on advanced Campus & Branch architectures.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, validated designs, best practices, configurations, and enablement.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Campus networking

EVPN/VXLAN

AI-driven network operations

Pre-sales experience

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking a Principal Architect for Campus & Branch to lead expert architecture and technical strategy across Mist solutions. You will partner with Field PLMs, Territory Managers and Engineers to win complex opportunities, validate designs, remove blockers and safeguard the customer install base.

The role requires senior technical leadership, hands-on architecture across Mist Wireless, Switching and Fabric, and the ability to scale capabilities within the field