HPE
Channel Presales Technical Architect - Minnesota
$152K–$355K
Bloomington, Minnesota +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 11, 2026
- Location
- Bloomington, Minnesota
All, Minnesota, United States of America - Experience
- 5+ years of technical presales experience with a major storage vendor or storage-focused channel partner.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Advises and enables channel partners to architect, demonstrate, and sell HPE storage and data protection solutions, supporting customer opportunities and partner-driven growth.
What you'll do
- Build partner technical capability through enablement, workshops, hands-on labs, and certification support.
- Design and present storage solutions, support configurations and proofs of concept, and develop competitive strategies.
- Collaborate with HPE teams and partners to generate and progress opportunities, maintain pipeline, and support handoff to implementation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of technical presales experience with a major storage vendor or storage-focused channel partner.
- Demonstrated virtualization knowledge, including VMware or KVM-based environments, and at least two application stacks.
- Hands-on knowledge of at least one major public cloud and expertise across the data lifecycle, including block, file, backup, and ransomware protection.
Nice to have
- Expertise in a major vertical such as financial services, manufacturing, or healthcare.
- Storage-related industry certifications; public cloud certifications are preferred.
Pay
USD 151,500 - 355,000 annual combined base and target-level sales compensation at 100% of sales plan; 80% base salary and 20% target-level sales compensation.
Tools
VMware, KVM, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
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