$200K - $225K Base (Depending on Experience) plus Bonus

Full Time Employee role

***NO RECRUITING AGENCIES***

***NO C2C***

***NO Sponsorship available***

Note: This role is designed for a highly experienced technologist with a background in advisory consulting, enterprise architecture, or senior pre-sales leadership within a VAR, Systems Integrator, or major OEM. You must demonstrate the capability to engage at the boardroom and architect level with equal credibility.

About e360

e360 is a 30+ year privately-owned company with a focus on our people, our clients and leading technologies. Our team is comprised of leaders that focus on delivering innovative consulting solutions that leverage leading and emerging technologies. 

We are a dynamic and entrepreneurial consulting company that offers ample opportunities for professional development and growth suited to each individual’s personal and professional goals. We offer internal, and subsidize external, trainings, and reimburse the cost of technology certification exams and / or renewals. Our family-founded business sees work life fit as a core value that all of our practitioners practice – the value you add to your team is more important than the time that you ‘clock in and out.’ You will have numerous opportunities to interface with senior leadership, and benefit from mentorship internally or through introductions through external networks to support your growth. 

Role Summary

The Principal Advisor – Composable Enterprise is a senior, client-facing advisory leader responsible for shaping enterprise infrastructure strategy and guiding organizations through the design, evolution, and operationalization of composable enterprise architectures. This role operates at the intersection of business strategy, enterprise architecture, and advanced infrastructure technologies, serving as a trusted advisor to executive, architectural, and engineering stakeholders.

Rather than focusing primarily on pre-sales execution, the Principal Advisor provides strategic technical leadership, influences architectural direction, and ensures that composable enterprise solutions align with long-term business objectives, operating models, and transformation initiatives.

This role is designed for a highly experienced technologist with a background in advisory consulting, enterprise architecture, or senior pre-sales leadership within a VAR, Systems Integrator, or major OEM. You must demonstrate the capability to engage at the boardroom and architect level with equal credibility.

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Advisory & Enterprise Architecture

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers on composable enterprise strategy, architecture, and roadmap planning.
• Lead executive-level discussions to translate business goals, risk tolerance, and growth strategies into sustainable enterprise architecture decisions.
• Define target-state and transitional architectures spanning compute, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud adjacency, automation, and security integration.
• Provide architectural governance guidance to ensure solutions align with industry best practices, customer standards, and long-term operational viability.
• Advise on modernization initiatives including data center transformation, hybrid cloud adoption, edge strategies, and platform standardization.

Composable Enterprise Solution Leadership

• Shape and validate composable infrastructure and platform strategies that emphasize modularity, scalability, and operational agility.
• Develop and socialize reference architectures, design patterns, and architectural principles that can be reused across customers and verticals.
• Guide customers in evaluating architectural tradeoffs, technology selection, and vendor positioning within a composable ecosystem.
• Ensure architectural consistency across domains (compute, storage, network, security, and cloud) while enabling flexibility and innovation.

Executive Engagement & Thought Leadership

• Engage regularly with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and senior architects as a strategic advisor and technical authority.
• Lead architectural workshops, strategy sessions, and executive briefings focused on business outcomes rather than product features.
• Serve as a thought leader for composable enterprise concepts, contributing to internal and external messaging, whitepapers, and solution narratives.
• Elevate customer conversations from “solution design” to platform strategy and operating model evolution.

Cross-Functional & Partner Influence

• Collaborate with sales leadership, account executives, and delivery teams to ensure advisory insights inform pursuit strategy and solution positioning.
• Partner with OEMs and strategic vendors to influence roadmap alignment, validate architectural direction, and shape joint solution strategies.
• Provide senior-level oversight and guidance to delivery architects to ensure implementations align with advisory recommendations.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, raising overall architectural maturity across the organization.

Technical Scope & Expertise

Maintain deep and current expertise across enterprise infrastructure domains, including:

• Compute & Platforms: x86 architectures, HCI, virtualization, containers, GPU and high-performance workloads.
• Storage & Data Services: SAN/NAS, object storage, data protection, resiliency, scalability, and performance modeling.
• Networking: Core and edge architectures, SDN, segmentation, SD-WAN, and integrated security models.
• Cloud & Hybrid: Hybrid cloud architectures, cloud adjacency, migration strategies, and workload placement models.
• Security Integration: Zero Trust concepts, identity integration, network security posture, and platform-level security controls.

Professional Background

• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure architecture, advisory consulting, or equivalent senior technical leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience operating in trusted advisor or principal architect capacity with enterprise customers.
• Prior experience within a VAR, SI, or OEM, with exposure to complex, multi-vendor enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to influence architectural decisions at both technical and executive levels.

Certifications (Preferred)

• Cisco: CCNP / CCIE (Enterprise, Data Center, Security)
• VMware: VCP / VCAP
• HPE, Dell, NetApp advanced technical certifications
• Cloud architecture certifications (AWS or Azure – Associate or Professional)

Key Skills and Competencies

Advisory & Consulting Skills

• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills.
• Ability to guide customers through ambiguity and complex decision-making.
• Strong whiteboarding, facilitation, and architectural storytelling capabilities.
• Comfort challenging assumptions and providing objective, experience-based guidance.

Technical & Architectural Skills

• Expertise designing resilient, scalable, and composable enterprise architectures.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure integration points and operational dependencies.
• Ability to balance innovation with operational stability and risk management.
• Capable of mapping business outcomes to architectural principles and design patterns.

Business & Financial Acumen

• Strong understanding of cost modeling, TCO/ROI, and financial implications of architectural decisions.
• Familiarity with enterprise procurement models, vendor ecosystems, and partner programs.
• Ability to influence multi-stakeholder environments and align competing priorities.

Success Criteria (KPIs)

• Customer recognition as a trusted strategic advisor.
• Measurable influence on customer architectural direction and long-term platform decisions.
• Improved consistency and quality of enterprise architecture outcomes.
• Increased strategic deal impact driven by advisory-led engagements.
• Strong internal influence through mentorship and architectural leadership.