This role is onsite, mainly at an HPE partner or customer office.
The company provides edge-to-cloud technology that helps customers connect, protect, analyze and act on their data and applications.
The job family centres on technology consulting for external customers and internal project teams, including understanding customers' businesses and building trusted relationships with them.
At this management level, your technical work has visible impact on a product or major subcomponent, and you act as a recognised internal authority in a key technology area.
Responsibilities
Produce detailed technical designs for enterprise solutions.
Act as principal consultant, analysing and developing enterprise technology solutions.
Lead large cross-functional teams, including managing client staff assigned to the implementation team, through solution requirements, architecture or implementation deliverables.
Give technical direction to resolve complex issues and keep solutions on schedule and aligned with customer expectations. Devise new methods where existing ones do not fit.
Advise on proposals and solution design, and give senior IT leaders strategic direction based on the company's solutions and products.
Work with peers outside your organisation to define complex technology or process problems, and drive them to a solution largely on your own.
Develop strategies that help the company become the number one player in its market.
Take part in the company's professions programme and practice improvement activities.
Model knowledge sharing and reuse within your practice or profession, and encourage others to join and contribute to the professional community.
Publish material externally, such as books and magazine articles, and speak regularly at multi-customer technology conferences.
Mentor and advise team members, and extend collaboration beyond projects to practices and across GBUs. Keep a network of senior customer contacts and revisit them regularly.
Lead sales activities for a given area, give owners clear direction, and provide strategies, ideas and collateral. Lead proposal production across departments for complex customer solutions.
Requirements
12+ years of professional experience plus a Master of Arts or Science, or equivalent, in computer science or a related field. Without a master's degree, you need 15+ years in total, including three additional years of relevant experience.
Build solutions usable across multiple customer sites that improve availability, performance, maintainability and agility.
Create reusable, innovative fixes and workarounds grounded in deep knowledge of the affected products, processes and customer environment.
Understand adjacent business units, third parties, competitors and business drivers.
Be an advanced subject matter expert in IT products, applied technologies and processes, including vendor interoperability in complex infrastructures. Identify interoperability issues between vendors' products and be a recognised expert in one or more technologies across the region.
Hold vendor or industry certifications in more than one discipline.
Regularly represent the business at recognised industry technical events.
Troubleshoot issues across several significant multi-vendor products.
Show innovation and explain new offerings across multiple business units. Have led a cross-functional team delivering several solutions across several technologies.
Present and lead business discussions at every level, including in public forums.
Represent the whole organisation in customer sales presentations, explain the benefits of working with the company, and lead proposal production across departments for complex solutions. Coach others in consulting skills.
Win new opportunities through consulting skills, and build strategic client engagements.
Relate risks and challenges in one client effort to others.
Write detailed project plans and work breakdown structures, and produce architecture specifications that map customer business requirements to technologies.
Conditions
Onsite work, primarily at an HPE partner or customer office.
Job level TCP05, in the Services function.
Locations listed: New Zealand and Singapore.
HPE is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions on qualifications, merit and business need. Accommodation requests can be made through the company's secure form.
Benefits
Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits covering physical, financial and emotional needs.
Career development programmes, including routes to becoming a knowledge expert or moving into another division.