Senior Solutions Architect

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The primary responsibility of the Senior Solutions Architect is to consult with the client and work with internal teams to create strategies, transformational designs and the architectural vision for solutions that address the clients’ needs. They provide multi-technology consulting services on all aspects of application software, infrastructure (where needed to support applications) and related technology components.

Currently NTT DATA have a variety of client offers that have been matured globally for sale into the South Africa Region. We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to become versed in the technical aspects of these client offers and be the local subject matter expert that liaises with the global teams, to bring these solutions to clients in South Africa.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Create and contribute to the development of proposed solutions to the client requirements
• Support sales and business development team members, as the technical expert on the solutions domain you own
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and/or applications and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into ‘quote ready’ designs using selected services and products.
• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with clients and others.
• Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
• Operate across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Extensive knowledge of one or more hyper-scaler applications and/or infrastructure capabilities
• Demonstrable knowledge and skill around integrations for cloud-based applications
• Specialist knowledge on the full application lifecycle management for specific applications, in line with relevant industry standard methodologies and frameworks
• Ability to develop and leverage specialist knowledge of reference architectures across industry verticals – any one of the following: FSI, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail
• Extensive experience in creating client proposals for services associated with applications management, enhancement or implementation
• Extensive experience in creating work breakdown structures to estimate effort for services associated with applications management, enhancement or implementation
• Experience in identifying the correct commercial model for the relevant service offers and transforming the work breakdown into a client ready commercial offer
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems
• Working knowledge of ITIL or qualification
• Working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
• Project Management experience or qualification (Prince 2; other)
• Any certifications on hyper-scaler applications e.g. Microsoft, AWS, Other

Required Experience:

• Advanced professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Application Enhancement services
• Project Management experience would be preferred but not essential
• Advanced client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management
• Advanced experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices
• Experience working in an application services field

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