Technical Design Architect

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

• For ten straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
• And, our 5,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go
  

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE... 

As a Technical Design Architect, you will utilize your strong technical competencies to provide the highest level of implementation capability and technical consultation to both customers and Pure sales teams to support sales goals. You will work on cross-functional teams including Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development Managers, Services and engineering to scope and help sell Professional Services solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous solutions to customers/partners. 

You will become intimately acquainted with the customer's/partner’s business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history, enabling you to build and present targeted solutions to our customer base as a member of the hands-on team delivering these services on location.  

The role covers pre-sales and delivery functions, and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates. 

You will possess a thorough understanding of IT architecture, designing solutions, networking and implementation of these solutions and you must have significant experience in the field of replication, clustering, cloud offerings as well as data migrations, technologies and solutions. You will also be experienced in delivering large scale and complex projects utilizing all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate. 

Responsibilities 

• Understands prospects' technical needs related to a specific market across local or specific product (i.e. block, virtualized, file solutions, clustering, replication best practice, disaster recovery, business contingency). 
• In a post-sales consultative role, supports the implementation of the professional services solution that was scoped and subsequently sold. 
• Participates in customer evaluations and proof of concepts on Pure systems to support sales efforts and address future customer needs. 
• Advises and consults the sales teams on engineering developments and strategies for replication, clustering and data migrations, ensuring these solutions meet and integrate into our clients DR and BCP best practices. 
• Evaluates partner proposals for migration services to ensure they deliver quality and value for money to Pure. 
• Delivers technical solutions to our customers, either as a sole resource or member of a team. 
• Develops scripts for both integration of Pure storage into a customer’s operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud and data migrations. 
• Prepares and delivers technical and architecture solutions. 
• Contributes significant portions for data migration solutions to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs. 
• Travels to the prospective customer's domestic sites and other global sites as necessary. 
• Manage project Risks, Budgets and Timelines to ensure successful project delivery 
• Manage change control during project delivery 

 

Required Experience 

• Experience with the below technologies: 

- Flash Array experience / Replication technologies (Active Cluster or similar)