Lenovo

At Lenovo we are looking for our new Senior Advisory Solutions Architect. At this position you will identify customers’ business challenges and articulate how highly complex technology solutions can help solve these, leveraging Subject Matter Experts within and outside of the Lenovo Professional Services organization as required.   

This position is suitable for you, if you can bring a “drive for results” attitude to construct innovative value and solutions for our customers.  Exposure to larger organizations and experience in both public and private companies are essential, as is consulting and or senior management experiences.
 

Responsibilities Include:

• Building personal relationships with Sales SMEs and C-Level customers to ensure early engagement in customers’ problem-and-solution determination process.
• Representing service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presentations to clients, ensuring customer expectations are appropriately set and managed, inc HCI, Storage, AI, Hybrid Cloud, and all aspects DC Transformation, including data migration, Edge, VDI, and IoT etc.
• Facilitating strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
• Assist with the creation and development of solution offerings;  participating and supporting in sales education, marketing activities, associated; training and mentoring consultants and sales specialists in core solution areas
• Supporting the building and leveraging of an ecosystem of internal technical specialists and partner capability to design end-to-end solutions for our customers.
• Maintaining a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT infrastructure marketplace including IT infrastructure trends, technologies, and standards. 

Qualifications/Skills:

• At least 10 years of experience with high end data center technologies and IT industry.
• In depth experience in at least one of the following, with broad awareness of others, HCI Solutions, Storage, Data migration, Hybrid cloud, and AI
• Undergraduate BSEE or BSCE degree, or equivalent
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally and to work effectively cross-culturally across teams.

What Lenovo can offer you:

• Opportunities for career development & growth
• Access to various training
• Performance-based rewards
• Flexible working environment (combination of working from home/office)

You will report to SSG (Solutions & Services Group) organization structure.

SSG has been focusing on the expanding IT service market, especially the digital workplace services opportunity, the growing demand for aaS (as a Service) model, and customers’ stronger preference for sustainability services. Meanwhile, SSG has continued to invest in software tools, platforms, and repeatable vertical solutions with our own IP, and focus on vertical solutions in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, and Smart City.  We are expanding TruScale as a Service to include Digital Workplace Solutions, developing our Hybrid Cloud solutions, and exploring Metaverse solutions.