Presales Principal Architect

Heartland Technology Group

Description:

Position Summary:

The Presales Principal Architect is a senior technical contributor responsible for defining and driving architectural strategy that aligns technical solutions with customer outcomes across HBS’s diverse customer base. This role balances presales leadership, technical enablement, and project delivery oversight to create scalable, customer outcomes, with a sales driven focus.

As a technical overlay, the Presales Principal Architect partners closely with sales teams to develop tailored solution designs and proposals, enabling growth through strategic customer engagement and vendor alignment. They also provide leadership to Engineering teams by mentoring engineers, closing skill gaps, and ensuring consistent delivery excellence on complex projects where they may serve as the Project Lead Engineer (PLE).

In addition, the Presales Principal Architect contributes to the development and maintenance of company-wide architectures, technical standards, and presales tools, fostering consistency, innovation, and operational efficiency across all business units. This position requires strong collaboration across sales, engineering, and vendor teams to deliver world‑class solutions that span multiple disciplines and industries, from on‑premises environments to the cloud.

The Presales Principal Architect will collaborate with customers and internal teams to design innovative technology solutions tailored to customer business needs, focusing on delivering measurable customer outcomes. This role requires translating technical capabilities into strategic solutions that drive value and support long‑term success.

The ultimate goal is to align with regional engineering and sales leadership to drive service revenue for their respective regions across all business units. Drive the value of HBS through service attachment and adoption. This will occur through the alignment with customers and in partnership with the primary engineers aligned to those accounts.

• Customer Engagement & Presales:
• Lead all presales efforts across assigned region(s), market(s), or technologies as a technical overlay, aligning with regional targets.
• Collaborate with sales teams to create solution designs, technical roadmaps, and proposals aligned to customer needs.
• Deliver technical presentations, demos, and workshops as the technical face of the organization in presales engagements.
• Mentor account teams on technical strategy and assist sales leadership with presales enablement initiatives.
• Partner with preferred and supported vendors to drive solution adoption and support vendor‑specific goals.
• Ensure timely, high‑quality turnaround of bills of materials, scopes of work, and other sales‑related deliverables in alignment with established SLAs.
• Project Leadership & Execution:
• Serve as Project Lead Engineer (PLE) on select large‑scale and complex engagements, providing technical leadership and architectural oversight.
• Guide Engineering teams during delivery to ensure architectural integrity, quality standards, and alignment to the sold solution.
• Partner with Project Management as needed to support technical planning, risk identification, and solution clarification, without assuming project management or status reporting responsibilities.
• Standards Development & Reference Architectures:
• Define, maintain, and evolve reference architectures that standardize solution design, enable repeatable presales execution, and support scalable delivery across regions.
• Partner with sales, engineering, and vendor teams to align reference architectures with supported technologies, customer use cases, and go‑to‑market priorities.
• Translate reference architectures into presales enablement assets, technical playbooks, and delivery guidance that promote consistency, efficiency, and quality outcomes.
• Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  
• Work collaboratively within regional and cross‑regional practices, maintaining alignment to utilization and growth goals.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Engineering teams to ensure effective project delivery and customer outcomes.
• Professional Development…