Senior Solution Architect

at  Ollion

WORKING WITH OLLION (OUR CLIENTS’ EXPERIENCES)

Progress matters more than process. Our global team of cloud-native pros is all about creating new and better ways to work—not just by solving your tech challenges, but by using technology to solve your business challenges. We keep the formulas, frameworks, and ten-point plans to a minimum, tackling your most pressing problems with a proprietary mix of good-old-fashioned ingenuity and refreshing humanity.

DIVERSITY AT OLLION

One of our cultural keystones, ‘Find the angle’ recognizes that every individual has different aspirations, needs and brings a unique perspective.
We value diversity, inclusion, and equity (DE&I) as core to our success. We believe that a diverse workforce brings together unique perspectives, experiences, and ideas, leading to innovation, creativity, and better outcomes for our clients and our organization. We are on a journey and are committed to building a workplace that celebrates and respects individuals from all backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, and cultural heritage.

As our commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected in our:

• Awareness and sensitisation programs: to create awareness and sensitisation. We encourage open dialogue, active listening, and mutual respect, creating a safe and supportive environment for everyone to contribute their unique perspectives and ideas.
• Dedicated efforts to building diverse teams: that leverage the strength of our differences to tackle complex challenges and drive innovation. By embracing diversity, we broaden our collective knowledge, enhance problem-solving capabilities, and unlock limitless potential for our employees.

Job Description

The Senior Solution Architect role at Ollion comprises 4 primary duties:

• Pre Sale activities - work with a member of the Solutions Architecture team to lead and oversee designs, pitches, documentation and estimates.
• Solution Design - help lead the Solution Architecture team in designing and architecting systems in a cloud native fashion on any of the 3 major providers. Provide review and quality assurance across the team’s output.
• Collaborate with delivery - work with delivery teams to perform cost optimisation activities, support with pipeline development and answer questions from the team.
• Product Shaping - use your experience and that of the team in assisting our clients to realise their goals to help create our next generation of products and services.

Qualifications
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12+ years hands on experience in Cloud technology, Development or Network Administration.

• Previous experience as a senior cloud architect, network administrator or DevOps lead
• Demonstrable leadership skills in building a CI/CD pipeline using open-source or cloud-native technology
• Demonstrable experience in leading and assuring the estimation of architecture work.
• Ability to lead work within the architecture team supporting RFP responses.
• Ability to interpret requirements and translate them to the service delivery team to support pilot projects, demonstrations, proofs- of-concept (POC)
• Experience with leading migration projects covering No-VM environments to VM on-prem or in cloud environments.
• Exhibit excellent understanding of the managed cloud hosting business concepts (AWS, GCP, Azure), market practices and trends.
• Demonstrable skills and expertise with cloud architecture best practices and thought leadership in their practical application.
• Experience in leading 5 ‘R’ migrations.
• Demonstrated skills and expertise in virtualization techniques , HA (High Availability) and zero downtime solutions.
• Experience in stakeholder management, risk & issue management
• Communications expertise with 3rd parties including cloud partners, development teams and potential clients up to C-Suite level.
• Good presentation, analytical and documentation skills
• Good interpersonal style, collaborative, congenial, client-friendly demeanor
• Well developed English language skills, oral and written. Bonus points for Bahasa or Mandarin speakers

Additional Information

• Pre Sale activities - work with a member of the Solutions Architecture team to lead and oversee designs, pitches, documentation and estimates.
• Solution Design - help lead the Solution Architecture team in designing and architecting systems in a cloud native fashion on any of the 3 major providers. Provide review and quality assurance across the team’s output.
• Collaborate with delivery - work with delivery teams to perform cost optimisation activities, support with pipeline development and answer questions from the team.
• Product Shaping - use your experience and that of the team in assisting our clients to realise their goals to help create our next generation of products and services