Principal Consultant (VCF SME)

Base pay range

$175,000.00 / yr - $200,000.00 / yr

About the role

As a Computacenter Principal Consultant, you will help provide transformative technology solutions for the world's most visionary companies. This takes imagination, relentless client service, and tenacity to enable our clients to achieve their goals and delight our customers. Our top-tier partnerships with leading-edge technology manufacturers keep us immersed across the broad spectrum of the IT ecosystem.

Along with implementing and assisting with designing single and multi-vendor technology solutions, you will have the opportunity to work within an industry-leading sales and technical sales team to understand our clients’ needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve their goals.

From strategy to fulfillment and managed services, our engineering-focused solutions help clients leverage technology to achieve more than they ever thought possible. This role emphasizes multiple versions of VCF, delivering high-quality design and implementation of VCF-based private and hybrid cloud solutions.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
• Act as a technical lead in technology solutions by doing the following :
• Mentoring other Engineers;
• Lead a team of resources on larger projects;
• Review the deliverables of other Engineers, as appropriate.
• Act as a point of escalation;
• Present technology topics at internal education sessions, industry user group meetings, and / or conferences.
• Be regarded as a thought leader by recommending new technologies, best practices, and tools that support the growth of the business
• Ability to assess the Customer environment and make design and solution recommendations.
• Act as liaison between Pre-Sales and Delivery teams.
• Provide design, deployment, and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions.
• Handle issues escalated by Consultants and Lead Consultants
• Ability to troubleshoot multi-vendor issues
• Lead a Project team
• Be current with vendor offerings and technology
• Be available to meet the customer’s IT needs
• Achievement of utilization targets
• Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.
• Lead architecture, design, deployment, and optimization of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, including core components (SDDC Manager, vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite).
• Conduct workshops, knowledge transfers, and lead internal technical training and evangelism.
• Oversee integration with third-party storage, network, security, backup, and automation tools.
• Create and deliver technical documentation, architectural blueprints, best-practice guidelines, and modernization roadmaps.
• Participate in or lead pre-sales efforts, technical scoping, proposals, and RFP responses.
• Maintain deep familiarity with VMware’s evolving VCF portfolio, driving use of advanced services like vDefend, Avi, Private AI, DSM, and integrated automation.
• Proven expertise—ideally hands-on—with VMware Cloud Foundation (including recent knowledge of VCF 9.0).
• Strong understanding of vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Aria Suite, and extended VCF services.
• VMware VCF Architect-level certification (e.g., VMware Certified Specialist – Cloud Foundation 2024) or higher (VCAP, VCDX preferred).
• Strong architectural, lifecycle management, automation, hybrid cloud, and workload migration experience.
• Excellent client-facing communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
• Able to think strategically : aligning VCF implementations with business outcome objectives.
• Experience in pre-sales, proposal development, and driving new revenue opportunities.
• Passion for mentorship and developing teams and technical excellence.
• Willingness to stay current with VCF and broader VMware ecosystem trends, innovations, and certifications.
• Travel as needed (e.g., up to 20%) to support client engagements.

What you have

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com / us

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