Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

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The Senior Cloud Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and may be required to implement complex cloud-based solutions that meet client's business and technical requirements. This position supports and influences sales teams by providing deep expertise in cloud computing technologies and architectures ensuring the effective design, deployment and operation of our cloud-based systems to meet client needs.

What you'll be doing

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and ensure technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives
• Design and architect cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Provide pre-sales technical support and expertise in analysing client requirements, in conjunction with the client's current collaboration capabilities.
• Assess existing systems and develop migration strategies to transition on-premises applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
• Design integration solutions to enable seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Define and implement security best practices and compliance standards for cloud-based systems.
• Develop and maintain cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Provide guidance and support to development teams to ensure adherence to cloud architecture standards and best practices.
• Develop or produce the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses.
• Assist with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution.
• Responsible for influencing and guiding members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals.
• Manage client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.
• On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on cloud technologies and architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and project managers, to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.
• Specifically relating to opportunity pursuit the Cloud Technical Architect will:
  • o Evaluate each opportunity for alignment with NTT capabilities and business policy
  • o Prepare the executive summary that outlines all of the information gathered from the client in regards to their needs, as understood
  • o Document the proposed technology solution
  • o Document the statement of work along with all labour requirements
  • o Work with the relevant internal stakeholders to prepare the pricing format that will be supplied to the customer.
  • o Perform the actual solution design and prepare a parts list outlining equipment to be provided.
  • o Develop and manage a proof-of-concept as such may be required
  • o Engage all technical resources required for an accurate solution design
  • o Prepare a network diagram outlining the proposed solution
  • o Document all deliverables and what constitutes a successful completion.
  • o Review the final parts list as supplied and submit all information to the applicable bid team for final assembly
  • o Verify the proposal's accuracy and sign off on the final documents to be presented to the client
  • o Assist during the final presentation to the client as appropriate

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Demonstrate strong client engagement skills
• Good understanding of the vendor's products business and technology positioning
• Technical consulting aptitude
• Good communication skills
• Good analytical skills
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with team members, contributing to their success
• Broad product knowledge integrated with technology understanding
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, including microservices, serverless computing, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure technologies, such as virtual machines, storage solutions, networking, and load balancing.
• In-depth understanding of cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with IaC tools and frameworks such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager
• Understanding cloud design patterns, microservices, serverless computing, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments
• Deep knowledge such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other providers, understanding the specific services offered by each platform, including compute, storage, databases, networking, and security
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, load balancing, and firewall configurations.
• Knowledge of VPNs, VPC peering, and hybrid connectivity options between on-premises and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of identity and access management (IAM), encryption, data protection, secure network configurations, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS.
• Proficiency in cloud storage solutions such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
• Understanding of different database options including relational databases (e.g., Amazon RDS, Azure SQL Database) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB).
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring and management tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Knowledge of integration technologies such as API gateways, messaging queues, and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes
• Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study (Computer Science, Information Technology, etc)
• Vendor product, sales and technology certifications
• Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect.

Required Experience:

• Advanced demonstrable professional technical experience within a large scale (preferably multi-national) technology services environment
• Advanced experience as a Cloud Technical Architect or a similar role, designing and implementing cloud architectures for complex systems and applications.
• Advanced experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions, preferably using leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Advanced demonstrable experience in a professional technical role
• Advanced experience in project management methodologies
• Advanced experience with major cloud platforms
• Advanced experience with serverless computing platforms like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions
• Advanced experience with automation and orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to streamline the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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