Chief Technologist - Datacentre

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company? Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? Join our OCTO team! The OCTO is responsible for delivering world-class technology market insights and guidance to our customers and internal stakeholders. We work with sales, services, vendors, customers, partners, analysts and Softcat's leadership teams to ensure that our propositions and capabilities remain relevant now and into the future.

Success. The Softcat Way. Passion. Intelligence. Fun. Responsible. Community: these are the core values which define Softcat. We are one of the UK's leading IT infrastructure providers and a FTSE 250 listed company. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first.

In this senior role, we are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and experienced technology evangelist to own the development of the Datacentre offering within our Hybrid Platforms proposition. In addition to Datacentre, our Hybrid Platforms proposition also covers Cloud and Edge. Datacentre at Softcat is focused on the modernisation, optimisation and supply of on-premises datacentre solutions that leverage resilient, performant, compliant on-premises foundations and private/hybrid control to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation as part of the wider Hybrid Platform ecosystem. We deliver this by combining technology and services across several connected disciplines.

The ideal candidate will be a determined positive energising collaborator, who will set a clear and simple vision, will initiate and build trust amongst colleagues, customers and partners, is comfortable with passionate debate and making decisions, is confident presenting to business and technical audiences, and who has a get it done, get it done together, and get it done well attitude. Above all, you will obsess over customer and colleague engagement, to ensure every interaction proves that we care.

As the Chief Technologist - Data Centre, you'll be responsible for:

• Acting as an ambassador for Softcat's values (passion, fun, intelligence, responsibility, and community)
• Providing technology market insights and guidance for the Hybrid Platforms TTC, and the Softcat leadership teams
• Identifying common customer problems and opportunities that will gain mainstream technology and services adoption
• Planning the successful customer engagement journey through Softcat
• Engaging technical audiences alongside sales and services colleagues
• Uncovering opportunities and identifying clear outcomes and success criteria

We'd love you to have:

• Knowledge, experience, creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, advanced problem solving and humility
• Energising collaborative team player and relationship builder, consistently driven, self-motivated, with a positive attitude
• Outstanding organisational skills, with the ability to co-ordinate and prioritise effectively
• Confidence and credibility in front of external and internal business and technical audiences
• Commercially aware approach to customer engagement and proposition development

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you. We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background. To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Here at Softcat, we don’t prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefits include:

• Pension
• Share incentive plan
• Life Assurance
• Holiday
• Trips
• Vouchers
• Partner/family Benefits
• Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support