Consulting Systems Engineer - Strategic Solutions

Qualifications:

• Experience: Demonstrable experience in pre-sales, technical consulting, customer-facing and / or Inside Sales roles, with a proven track record of solutions selling and consulting.
• Technical Expertise: Strong pre-sales technical skills and hands-on experience in:
  • Data centre infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Network)
  • Virtualisation and Software-Defined Technologies
  • Cloud Technologies and DevOps
  • Core and Edge Networking
  • Enterprise Security/Cyber Security
  • IT/OT Environments
  • AI Awareness
• Certifications: High-level technical accreditations with major vendors such as Cisco, VMware, Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, and NVIDIA.
• Industry Experience: Mid Level industry experience in client-side senior roles or within technology integrators or manufacturers, with expertise in applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and networking.
• Consultative Skills: Demonstrable consultative technical selling skills, with the ability to rapidly understand customer business problems and propose technology-based solutions.
• Communication Skills: Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to engage with senior customer stakeholders, including C-level executives.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Commercial knowledge: Terminology – knowing the difference between discount and effective discount, depreciation, net price, subscription vs software, LDOx (x = support, life, sw, maintenance, security updates).  Being able to navigate Excel across data input, vlookup’s, tables etc

Why Join WWT?

At WWT, we offer excellent benefits, comprehensive training, and a competitive compensation package. Our culture of innovation and collaboration provides an environment where you can grow your career while making a significant impact. Join us to be part of a company recognized for its commitment to excellence. In 2025, WWT continued to excel, ranking third in the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women™ and sixth in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for large companies. These accolades reflect WWT’s dedication to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace culture. 

Equal Opportunities:

We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a workplace culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for All!

WWT offers excellent benefits, training, and a competitive compensation package. Visit our corporate web site at WWT.com for more information.

CONSULTING SYSTEMS ENGINEER – UNITED KINGDOM

Job Title: Consulting Systems Engineer Strategic Solutions

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company Overview:

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider that brings an innovative and proven approach to how organisations around the world discover, evaluate, architect, and implement technology.

WWT was initially established in the US back in 1990, but since 2013, there has been exponential expansion into Europe, creating a sales office in the heart of London and building a European Integration Centre (EIC) with an operations team at Schiphol. With over 300 employees in the UK, WWT continues to grow rapidly. 

Position Overview:

This is a new position in the company to support continued growth and become part of the Strategic Solutions Team. The Consulting Systems Engineer (CSE) role, will focus on Technical, Operational and Commercial evaluations and expertise to be the key interface between customer and OEM resources for large and complex sales opportunities.

This role involves understanding the different technology and market solutions available to craft sales solutions for customers, advising them on area such as: how to manage that technology, where initiatives can be automated, how AI can influence the options available. Ultimately, bringing that all together to walk the customer through the commercials of the solution, why that option, how it will benefit them and cost. 

What are looking for: 

• Demonstrable Mid-Level experience in a CSE role. 
• Multi Discipline Experience (DCN, LAN, FW, Compute, Storage, etc.) This can be from experience working at a VAR/SI or multiple OEM’s or an OEM with a broad product portfolio. At WWT we analyse a varied mix of technologies and OEM’s so experience across multiple architectures is key.
• Experience performing a customer facing role / presenting is preferred
• Experience in any Inside Sales Rep type function or a commercial build function is a plus. 
• Solution focused / solution orientated approach at all times and resourceful – You will not be expected to be an expert in everything but seek to find solutions to problems rather than calling out challenges.

Technical Knowledge Markers:

• In-depth knowledge of OEMs products, part codes & software offerings. With the ability to match current/proposed features and functionality to applicable OEM’s tier offering.
• Competitive Cross Mapping - Thorough understanding of various OEMs licensing structures and the ability to map license tiers to other competitors offerings
• Leading client workshops to gather the key data points needed for TOC creation
• Understanding of hardware lifecycles, end of life/sales/supports and being able to coherently select OEM and alternative OEM replacements
• Having a strong knowledge of historical product/software offerings across the IT industry, with good insight to what is the latest in the market and what’s coming up in the future
• Experience in using OEM quoting tools/quick learning to navigate OEM quoting tools on own
• Be able to easily read large excel workbooks that have inventory data, extracting correct data like HW S/Ns, SW versions, license tiers etc
• Being able translate replacement products to clients buy menu items
• Being competent in collecting ‘hidden’ cost variables. Such as Power, rack unit space, cooling etc.