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KNOWLEDGE AND ATTRIBUTES:

• Significant knowledge of the methods and processes of an appropriate Enterprise Architecture framework, for example, TOGAF.
• Significant knowledge across Enterprise Architecture, Managed Services, Service Management Consulting, and multiple solutions areas (Business Units), and across domains, delivery units, and geographies.
• Significant understanding of how technology solutions are influenced and affected by various business scenarios.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Significant demonstrable systems thinking, and strategic thinking skills coupled with the ability to capture the key elements of a system into a simple abstraction that empowers good decisions.
• Significant business financial skills, coupled with the demonstrable ability to perform a cost-benefit analysis and manage the budget of a team.
• Significant business negotiation, influencing and conflict resolution sills.
• Significant knowledge of infrastructure strategies including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, security, network, compute and storage, etc.
• Excellent ability to translate complex technical terminology, concepts, and issues in terms understandable to technical and non-technical management and staff.
• Political savvy plus the significant knowledge of industry best practices for architectural governance.
• Significant knowledge of core Technology Solutions Portfolio offer artefacts, techniques, demos, tools and deliverables.
• Significant vertical knowledge of the required industry.
• Significant understanding of the vast range of IT Service Management and operations.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or business or a related field.
• Certified Software related certification is desired.
• Cisco CCIE and/or Cisco CCXP certification strongly desired.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• Significant demonstrated experience in digital infrastructure of the key vendor’s software feature and technology capabilities.
• Significant demonstrated experience in providing an end-to-end design and solution in the aspect of the digital infrastructure.
• Significant prior experience in key vendors licensing models, such as Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare and Palo Alto license compliance.
• Significant experience evaluating software asset agreements.
• Significant experience in license/software adoption strategies and frameworks.
• Significant experience in budgeting and forecasting.
• Significant experience in multiple industries and across several disciplines.
• Significant experience with projects through the sales engagement, pre-sales, and also architecture design validation, especially on the infrastructure software technology of key vendor, such as Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft and/or Palo Alto, as well as fully well-versed with the respective vendor’s licensing model and structure.
• Significant experience working as a solution architect in a global IT services provider organization.
  Workplace type:
  Hybrid Working

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads the design of large and complex technology solutions by driving services teams, to provide client solutions that support client business outcomes, integrating technology and service design across multiple domains, delivery units, or geographies.
• Works closely with the sales team to participate in and proactively drive the presales process with clients. This may include conducting meetings, writing proposals, proposing solutions, and delivering presentations.
• Shares responsibility for win strategy, is responsible for translating clients’ business strategy and desired business outcomes into an IT strategy/roadmap, positioning our end-to-end portfolio with a focus on landing a service-related solution, and end-to-end solution design.
• Leads large complex solution design with clients and lead/support the internal service and technical teams to enable business outcome and requirements mapping.
• Integrates services, processes, applications, data, technology through a design process across multiple domains, delivery units, or geography.
• Contributes to the knowledge base of company’s development and services by sharing best practices with internal teams and clients.
• Uses understanding of the client’s business, industry practices, and breadth of knowledge on the full solution portfolio and consulting to personalize the solution in line with the client’s SLA, KPI, and measured need.
• Develops business case and end-to-end roadmap to optimize IT Operations and Measured Business Value across multiple solution areas.
• Interprets, influences, and develops IT strategies, as well as implement the execution of the strategies.
• Balances proven and industry-standard solutions against the need to disrupt and innovate.
• Defines architectural principles and applies them to influence architectural outcomes and guides governance.
• Develops As-Is, Vision, FMO and To Be service architectures, identify gaps and develop transition roadmaps.
• Manages large application and technology portfolios, using frameworks, lifecycle, and various other models and tools.
• Synthesizes current and future technology trends with client strategic imperatives to create compelling value-driven solutions for clients.
• Leads the integration of services (if the lead is not conducted by the Services Architect), process, applications, data, technology through a Technology Solution design across multiple domains, delivery units, or geography.