Strategic Partner Solutions Architect

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Description and Requirements

Are you passionate about shaping the future of enterprise infrastructure and helping partners unlock new business opportunities?

If you enjoy combining deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, building trusted relationships, and designing innovative solutions that deliver real business outcomes, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

As a Strategic Partner Solutions Architect, you will work closely with strategic partners, guiding them beyond product discussions toward integrated infrastructure, software, and services solutions. You will play a key role in helping partners develop new capabilities, accelerate complex opportunities, and position cutting-edge technologies across Lenovo's Pocket-to-Edge-to-Cloud portfolio.

What are your main responsibilities in this role?

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to strategic partners, building strong relationships with architects, technical leaders, practice leads, and senior stakeholders.
• Design and shape end-to-end infrastructure solutions across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, hybrid cloud, software-defined infrastructure, and services.
• Identify, develop, and accelerate complex opportunities by connecting technical solutions to customer business outcomes.
• Enable partners to transition from product-focused selling to solution-led conversations that drive greater value for customers.
• Deliver technical workshops, architecture sessions, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing initiatives to strengthen partner capabilities.
• Bring an innovative "art of the possible" mindset by connecting technologies such as AI, automation, and hybrid cloud to new business opportunities.
• Support solution discovery, architecture design, sizing, validation, and technical positioning throughout the sales cycle.
• Collaborate with sales, services, specialists, product management, and engineering teams to create integrated, outcome-driven solutions.

What are the role requirements?

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Architect, Presales Architect, or in a similar senior technical role.
• Strong expertise in designing complex enterprise infrastructure solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Deep knowledge of at least one infrastructure discipline and broad architectural understanding of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud technologies.
• Experience with HCI, software-defined infrastructure, 2-tier and 3-tier architectures, and modern data center environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies such as VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, OpenShift, Azure Local, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of automation and Infrastructure as Code technologies, including tools such as Ansible, Terraform, scripting, or equivalent frameworks.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to align technical solutions to business value, customer outcomes, and services opportunities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging both technical and business stakeholders and enabling partner teams.

What’s in it for you?

• Private medical insurance, income protection, life insurance, and an attractive pension scheme
• Strong focus on work–life balance, learning, and development
• Lenovo and Motorola product discounts plus lifestyle discounts
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Cycle to work programme and gym discounts
• Mortgage advice and financial wellbeing support
• Employee referral bonus

Ready to shape the future with us?

If you're excited by the challenge of solving complex business problems, influencing partner strategy, and helping organizations realize the full potential of modern infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

Bring your technical expertise, strategic mindset, and passion for innovation, and help us create smarter technology solutions for customers around the world.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.

Additional Locations:

* United Kingdom - Hampshire - Farnborough

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General Information

Req #

WD00102615

Career area:

Sales

Country/Region:

United Kingdom

State:

Hampshire

City:

Farnborough

Date:

Friday, September 11, 2026

Working time:

Full-time

Additional Locations:

* United Kingdom - Hampshire - Farnborough