Architect - Solutions

About the position

As a Solutions Architect - Storage, Virtualization & HPC, you will provide technical leadership in designing and implementing enterprise storage, virtualization, and HPC/AI solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, sales, and operations, to architect scalable, high-performance infrastructure tailored to Wesco's evolving needs. This role demands deep expertise in enterprise storage technologies, virtualization, and HPC workloads, with a strong emphasis on performance optimization, security, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes business workflows to address business needs.
• Develops and assists in the presentation of business cases.
• Documents system changes as a result of bugs, design flaws, missing requirements or other root causes.
• Facilitates design sessions with implementation team to define solutions.
• Delivers elements of systems design, including data migration rules, business rules, wireframes or other detailed deliverables.
• Designs computer and network systems to meet technology needs of business applications.
• Researches software and hardware products or services to find best solutions within defined budget to meet business requirements.
• Performs system and network modeling, analysis and planning to implement solutions to meet business needs within financial budget guidelines.
• Translates requirements to internal information technology teams such as software and hardware programmers, developers and network administrators to implement design.
• Reviews and analyzes current technology infrastructure and its ability to support strategic objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or a related field is required.
• Licenses/Certificates/Designations - Cisco, Microsoft, VMware is preferred.
• 8 years of Experience in network or systems administration is required; 10 years preferred.
• 3 years of Experience in network or systems design is required; 5 years preferred.
• 3 years of Experience with ERP systems is required; 5 years preferred.
• Knowledge and demonstrated proficiency of major operating systems is required.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology including servers, storage arrays, storage networking, network protocols, and general connectivity in multi-platform enterprise environments is required.
• Good understanding of virtualization concepts is required.
• Good understanding of load balancing and system redundancy concepts is required.
• Communicates effectively verbally including excellent presentation skills is required.
• Fundamental knowledge of relationship between business systems and technology platforms is required.
• Highly motivated and organized with a strong sense of initiative for identifying information, resources and problem solving is required.
• Dedicated to developing relationships with team members, colleagues, and clients is required.

Nice-to-haves

• Creative thinking outside of the box is preferred.