Data Centre Solutions Architect

Company: First Point Group
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Location: London
Job Description:

I’m partnering with a well-respected global technology solutions and services provider to hire a Data Centre Solutions Architect into their London-based architecture team.

This is a client-facing pre-sales role for someone who loves on-premises infrastructure and enjoys turning complex business problems into clear, well-designed technical solutions. You’ll join a highly skilled team of architects and engineers who speak at conferences, run meetups and are genuinely passionate about data centres, cloud, automation and AI.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Working directly with clients to understand their challenges and design the right on-prem solution
  • Data centre network modernisation: spine-leaf, SDN and Cisco ACI
  • Infrastructure automation and cost optimisation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Designing resilient, highly available environments and DR strategies
  • Architecting AI-ready infrastructure (GPU/CPU compute) and advising on power, cooling and rack density
  • Presenting solutions and business value to technical and senior stakeholders

What you’ll bring:

  • 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure or data centre architecture
  • Hands-on design or deployment experience across some of: Cisco UCS or Dell PowerEdge, Cisco Nexus/ACI, HCI (Nutanix, HyperFlex, Azure Local), Pure Storage or Dell EMC, VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Experience architecting and delivering migrations end to end
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to link technology to business outcomes
  • Bonus points for CCNP, NVIDIA certifications, Python/REST APIs, or Docker/Kubernetes

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Posted: October 30th, 2026