NTT DATA, Inc.

Software CoE Architect – EMEA

NTT DATA, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Bad Homburg • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudKubernetesOpenShiftVMware

About the role

  • Build and lead the early technical capability of the Portworx Software Centre of Excellence within NTT DATA Technology Solutions
  • Drive pipeline growth, create technical credibility, and establish Portworx expertise across priority European countries
  • Act as the technical advocate for Pure/Portworx inside NTT DATA, accelerating Modern Virtualization, Kubernetes modernisation, and AI-aligned Platform Engineering opportunities
  • Drive technical discovery, qualification and solution shaping for Portworx opportunities across EMEA
  • Build momentum around Portworx within NTT DATA country teams (sales, architects, application modernization, Cloud)
  • Deliver technical workshops, demos, and repeatable presentations for Modern Virtualization, K8s Resilience, and Application Modernization use cases
  • Support early lighthouse accounts with solution design aligned to Pure PS/SSE
  • Become certified and proficient across the four Portworx software products
  • Help define and evolve the technical CoE capability, (frameworks, patterns, reusable architectures)

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on background with Kubernetes (admin-level understanding of clusters, stateful workloads, operators, scheduling)
  • Proven experience with VMware platforms (ESXi, vSphere, migration patterns)
  • Solid knowledge of storage infrastructure — block, file, snapshots, replication, DR patterns
  • 3–7 years in customer-facing architecture / pre-sales roles, preferably in cloud, infra modernisation or platform engineering
  • Strong communication and workshop-facilitation skills
  • Ability to rapidly learn new technologies and advocate for them internally.
  • Certifications: CKA/CKAD, VMware VCP, Red Hat/OpenShift certs
Benefits
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
KubernetesVMwarestorage infrastructureblock storagefile storagesnapshotsreplicationdisaster recoveryapplication modernizationcloud infrastructure
Soft skills
communicationworkshop facilitationadvocacytechnical credibilitycustomer-facingsolution shapingrapid learningleadershipcollaborationpresentation skills
Certifications
CKACKADVMware VCPRed Hat certificationOpenShift certification