Solution Architect

Description

 

• Accountable for SOW authorship along with Services Solutions Principals, overall architecture, operating model, and alignment of the technology to business objectives of the customer
• Proactively communicate and build strong credibility with the customer to become a trusted advisor and "go-to” technical counsel while collaborating with delivery PM, sales and broader delivery team
• Understand customer business requirements and define future state roadmap, design end-to-end solution and provide technical oversight through delivery execution
• Align broader delivery team with customer expectations/outcomes and provide iterative technical thought leadership on execution to ensure customer outcomes are achieved as defined in SOW
• Conduct and engage in design reviews internally and with customer stakeholders and present LOE and SOW and final deliverables to customer c-suite executives
• Provide escalations POC guidance on triaging critical issues and decisions
• Co-lead Steering Committee/delivery governance with delivery Program Manager
• Engage in post-delivery meetings with Customer to discuss future-state solutions and proactively communicate future sales opportunities with Sales
  
   

Desired Skills

 

• 10+ years of experience as a Cloud/IT architect, Technology Consultant or as a CTO for global organization leading Digital or IT transformations, service management or service-oriented orgs
• Strong C-suite presence with excellent business acumen, oral and written communication skills
• Strong expertise in Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud strategy, design and execution is required with sound understanding of Virtualization, XaaS, DevOps, Cloud native technologies
• Experience or familiarity in large scale automation (e.g. vRealize, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Razor, Hamlin) and concepts of continuous integration and delivery
• Considerable experience in developing IT roadmaps, maturity assessments and Cloud solutions
• Experience in pre-sales or Sales is a plus but not required
• A min. of bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is required, business background a plus