Solutions Architect at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Responsibilities

• Contribute proactively to new service development.
• Ensure quality, up-to-date documentation exists for all service arrangements
• Provide technical and business consultative leadership throughout the technical life cycle of technical solutions.
• Manage and develop strategic partnerships with third party suppliers and other internal stakeholders for Cloud Aggregators or Managed Service Providers.
• Coordinate with the sales team in formulating and building up proposal knowledge, including making technical demos and presentations to customers.
• Demonstrate ability, determination and tenacity to move major initiatives forward and drive focus while consistently thinking of the bottom-line impact of the efforts
• Will be involved from pre-sales solution formulation through system deployment; including bid preparation and customer interface resulting in solutions architecture proposals.
• The Solutions Architect will develop and articulate solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customer's organization.
• Assist in the translation of customer needs/technical requirements to appropriate solutions by liaising with customers to understand, anticipate and meet their specific needs.
• Design service solutions for Managed Service customers in line with ITIL and/or industry best practice.
• Proven business development experience and familiarity with cloud services markets
• Manage multi-faceted projects with diverse stakeholders across different continents. A track record of successful project management is important.
• Familiarity with international, regional and local provider markets.

Skills & Qualification Required

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Information Communication Technology, Engineering or Computer Science Cisco CCNA/CCDA/CCIP/CCNP/CCDP/CWNA
• PMI, Prince 2 or other industry equivalent
• Certifications in Cloud Technologies, SDN is considered a plus for this
• 7-10 years of experience.