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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

Lead Solution Architect

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid, Senior
Bachelor's
Puteaux, France
HybridTwo days per week in the HPE office are required.
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Five to ten years of industry experience.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to understand customer business problems, needs, and opportunities and design appropriate information systems solutions.
  • Ability to lead two or more consultants in architecture, requirements, operational, or implementation deliverables.
  • Ability to lead architectural design, development, deployment, and technical quality for medium to large IT-based solutions across multiple technology or specialty areas.
  • Ability to direct architecture for multiple medium-sized projects concurrently and understand information systems or operational solution modeling methods and tools.
  • Ability to validate and evaluate information systems or operational architectures against technical requirements and specifications.
  • Familiarity with architectural, development, and operational methodologies such as Zachman, TOGAF, and ITSM.
  • Knowledge of business management, financial concepts, capital investment, financial modeling, business contracts, industry IT practices, technical standards, infrastructure, trends, roadmaps, and IT enablers.
  • Deep IT industry knowledge and expert or master-level knowledge of relevant technologies, IT operations, or IT disciplines.
  • Ability to design for accessibility, scalability, and availability.
  • Ability to write Statements of Work for medium to large solutions spanning multiple technologies or operational areas.
  • Ability to apply program and project management methods to define, plan, cost, resource, track, and accomplish project goals.
  • Ability to lead business development activities, identify and qualify opportunities, position offerings against competition, prepare proposals and bids, and contribute to approval and review processes.
  • Ability to build client rapport and trust and demonstrate consultative solution-selling skills.
  • Good customer influence and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to gather, assess, and apply organizational, technical, operational, and sales or marketing information for business decisions.
  • Ability to prepare clear, concise, and persuasive communications, including effective writing, presentations, active listening, and translation of technical issues into business terms.
  • Ability to design and present high-impact messages to senior management using presentation tools.
  • Excellent speaking and writing skills.
Responsibilities
  • Architect custom and reusable solutions within project, program, and operational scopes.
  • Customize reusable solutions within project and program scopes.
  • Capture and share architectural intellectual property at the project and program level.
  • Oversee implementation and governance of architectures.
  • Contribute to the architecture profession worldwide and across company businesses.
  • Develop technically feasible long-term IT strategies and plans for clients.
  • Assess the business impact of specific technologies and strategies.
  • Identify and address technical and operational risks.
  • Review and provide input on activities for medium to large business-unit projects.
  • Collaborate with project managers to develop detailed project plans and work breakdown structures.
  • Develop and deliver sales presentations to chief executive, executive staff, and chief information officer audiences.
  • Provide architectural direction for concurrent projects.
  • Develop Architecture Specification deliverables that map customer business requirements to technology or operational recommendations.
  • Collaborate with project managers on regional medium to large projects and technically manage customer staff assigned to implementation teams when required.
  • Play a leading role in the local architecture profession.
  • Contribute to company knowledge systems at least twice per year.
  • Make recommendations to customers to improve job satisfaction for company employees working on projects.
  • Contribute to developing new company services and methodology modifications.
  • Assist with developing and delivering training.
  • Coach and mentor specialist-level architects.
  • Participate in defining company-unit processes, standards, and policies.
  • Build and manage long-term strategic relationships with business-unit leaders and CIO and CTO stakeholders.

About the company

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud software to large companies, governments and service providers. Its GreenLake platform lets customers run on-premises hardware as a metered cloud service, and its Cray supercomputers run national lab and AI training workloads. The networking business, built on Aruba and Juniper Networks, supplies campus, data-center and routing equipment. Revenue comes from hardware sales, multiyear support contracts, financing and subscriptions. The company traces its roots to Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, became a separate public company in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Houston, Texas

Founded

1939

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What believers are saying

  • Growth is strong: revenue hit a record $12.2 billion, up 34%, in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • Time off to recharge: HPE gives four Wellness Fridays off a year plus 60 hours of paid volunteer time.
  • Scale gives range: HPE runs server, storage, networking and supercomputer businesses under one employer.

What critics are saying

  • Cuts continue after Juniper: an October 2025 WARN notice listed 52 HPE layoffs in San Jose, California.
  • Integration pressure: HPE still targets $600 million in yearly Juniper cost savings by fiscal 2028, as of October 2026.
  • Supply limits sales: in September 2026, CEO Antonio Neri said memory supply stays very constrained until 2028.

What makes Hewlett Packard Enterprise unique

  • Networking is now core: Juniper helped make networking a $2.9 billion business in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • AI networking is surging: Networks for AI orders hit a record $700 million in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • Hybrid cloud model: GreenLake bills customers monthly for on-premises servers and storage they use.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

Professional Development Budget

Wellness Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

11%

1 year growth

11%

2 year growth

11%
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