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.

I n this senior role, we are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and experienced technology evangelist to own the development of the Data centre offering within our Hybrid Platforms proposition. In addition to Data centre, our Hybrid Platforms proposition also covers Cloud and Edge.

Data centre at Softcat is focused on the modernisation, optimisation and supply of on‑premises data centre 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.

• 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

• Knowledge, experience, creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, advanced problem solving and humility
• Energetic 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 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:

• 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.

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

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.