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Job Summary:
Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. The Director of Data Center Solutions Engineering is responsible for leading the Data Center Solutions practice, mentoring a team of Solutions Architects, and driving profitable growth through complex solution engagements.
Responsibilities:
• Own and grow the Data Center Line of Business across compute, storage, networking, power, cooling, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies aligned to enterprise and mid-market segments.
• Establish technical standards, architectural frameworks, and design governance.
• Ensure solutions meet profitability targets while maintaining competitive positioning.
• Personally lead and architect large, transformational, and technically complex opportunities.
• Act as executive technical sponsor on strategic pursuits.
• Provide architectural oversight on high-density, low-latency, and mission-critical environments.
• Validate solution designs across compute, storage, networking, security, power, and cooling.
• Guide infrastructure modernization, hybrid cloud transitions, and data center consolidation initiatives.
• Partner with Sales Leadership to identify, qualify, and close large-scale opportunities.
• Support complex RFPs and executive presentations.
• Lead governance reviews, articulate risk mitigation strategies, and defend architectural decisions.
• Drive complex negotiations and transformational sales engagements.
• Ensure forecast accuracy and disciplined pipeline management.
• Player Coach who will mentor and develop a team of Solutions Architects.
• Provide technical coaching, deal review, and escalation support.
• Foster cross-team collaboration and best practice sharing.
• Build succession plans and elevate the technical depth of the team.
• Participate in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring senior architectural talent.
• Develop and maintain senior-level OEM relationships.
• Influence partner roadmaps and access executive technical resources.
• Drive strategic alignment with key vendors in compute, networking, storage, and emerging technologies.
• Ensure alignment with channel strategy and incentive programs.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10–15+ years in enterprise infrastructure architecture or data center engineering.
• 5+ years leading senior Solutions Architects or engineering teams.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise and multi-site data centers.
• Experience designing and supporting high-density compute environments.
• Experience designing and supporting low-latency infrastructures.
• Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud integration.
• Demonstrated experience closing multi-million-dollar infrastructure deals.
• Strong financial acumen (TCO, ROI, margin modeling, pricing strategy).
• Proven experience presenting to CIO, CTO, and executive stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of OEM ecosystems and channel dynamics.
• Experience supporting highly regulated or performance-sensitive environments (e.g., financial services, healthcare, HPC).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Hands-on expertise in compute (rack, blade, HCI, GPU-enabled workloads).
• Hands-on expertise in enterprise storage (SAN/NAS/NVMe).
• Hands-on expertise in modern networking architectures (leaf-spine, SDN).
• Hands-on expertise in data protection & disaster recovery.
• Hands-on expertise in power architecture (UPS topology, redundancy models, kW per rack planning).
• Hands-on expertise in cooling strategy (containment models, high-density cooling).
• Hands-on expertise in hybrid cloud integration and automation frameworks.
• Technically credible and commercially sharp.
• Comfortable leading in front of executive stakeholders.
• Structured and disciplined in governance.
• Strategic thinker with tactical execution capability.
• High sense of urgency and accountability.
• Collaborative across Sales, Services, and OEM partners.
• Strong communicator with executive presence.
Company:
Computacenter is an IT services company that provides infrastructure, digital transformation, consulting, and managed services. Founded in 1981, the company is headquartered in Hatfield, GBR, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.