Solution Architect

at  NCC Group

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About Escode
Escode, a division of NCC Group, is committed to ensuring operational resilience and peace of mind for both vendors and licensees. Whether vendors are safeguarding code or investors are licensing software, Escode’s comprehensive services provide the necessary protection to safeguard investment in digital assets.
As the foremost provider of escrow services globally, Escode specializes in software and technology escrow, boasting unparalleled expertise in protecting invaluable digital assets. With over 40 years of industry experience, Escode has earned a reputation synonymous with trust and reliability.
Escode’s Escrow Verification Services serve as a crucial quality control mechanism, confirming the completeness and usability of deposited code as stipulated in the escrow agreement. This verification process provides investors with the confidence that their investments are backed by high-quality, usable code, thereby minimizing the risk of financial loss due to software dependencies.
The Opportunity:
The Escode Division has a community of technical and commercial staff each making use of and providing services to customers and software vendors through traditional on premise and cloud technologies.
As a Solution Architect within NCC Group’s Escode division, you will be a technical specialist across a broad range of software escrow services to our clients and technology partners. Your core focus is to be a technical point of contact both internally and externally, and ensure the design, implementation, review of solutions which support revenue growth through predominantly existing clients. You will have good knowledge of Software Application Development and Cloud Infrastructure, working alongside Sales, Legal and Technical Operations Teams, to create market leading solutions in line with the strategic objectives of the Escode Division.

The Challenge:

• Research and architect products and services to ensure the continued growth of all services within the Global Software Resilience division.
• Attendance of conference calls and onsite meetings including complex/strategic requirements to support the Sales Teams in their positioning of our services. This may include presentations to both large and small audiences.
• Mentoring and assisting in technical team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and leveraging organisational resources to improve capacity for project work.
• Liaising with Sales, Pre-sales, Technical and Legal staff to clarify points raised as part of the sales process.
• Provision of technical scoping information to the various Sales Teams and clients. This information may be in the form of technical documents, face-to-face discussions, or over the telephone.
• Quality assurance of complex client-facing documents, including proposals and methodology literature, to ensure the solution proposed by NCC Group meets the client’s requirements, and that the time allowed in the proposals is sufficient to perform the work in scope.
• Creation of technical documents following scoping to ensure accurate transfer of solution and requirements to the delivery consultant.
• Acting as an escalation point for technical assistance required by the Verification Consultant (service delivery) and Cloud Operations Teams.
• Contributor to product management and innovation. Feeding back on research and client opportunities to shape and build our current and future product portfolio.
• Ensuring and enforcing a regional focus on all initiatives with regular engagement to regional stakeholders in weekly and monthly meetings.
• Opportunity to specialise and train in a technology of interest.

Essential Skills:

• Strong presales/technical consultancy skills including risk mitigation, stakeholder management, reporting, project and time management.
• Experience in a range of common programming languages and cloud technologies, including the Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platforms.
• Excellent presentation skills to both small and large audiences.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with proven ability to explain technical content to a non-technical audience.
• Proven ability to manage client interactions and understand demanding technical engagements, whilst working to project deadlines.
• Excellent document writing and presentation skills on complex solutions.
• Demonstrable understanding of complex, full life-cycle software development projects.

Preferred Skills:

• Entry level certification in AWS/Azure/GCP or relevant equivalent
• Experience with interpreting Architectural design documentation and creating technical statements of work.
• Experience with Salesforce
• Experience in managing the design and delivery of off the shelf, consultancy and marketplace offerings

The Person:
It is essential the successful candidate has a positive, proactive, resilient aptitude to technical consulting, technical sales and administrative tasks in addition to a pragmatic approach to problem solving. A candidate with keen interest in new and emerging technologies and methodologies is preferred. They must be able to demonstrate their organisational skills, flexibility, and enjoy working within a global team environment. It is also essential that the successful person is accurate with their work and is attentive to detail. There may be requirements of out of hours support required for certain projects dependant on project deadlines and international customers.
So, what’s next?
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then we would love to hear from you! Click on apply to this job to send us your CV and cover letter and the relevant member of our global talent team will be in touch with you. Alternatively send your details to global.ta@nccgroup.com .
About your application
We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.
If you do not want us to retain your details, please email global.ta@nccgroup.com. All personal data is held in accordance with the NCC Group Privacy Policy (candidate-privacy-notice-261023.pdf (nccgroupplc.com)). We are committed to diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please tell us at any stage.
Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process. This role being advertised will be subject to BS7858 screening as a mandatory requirement

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