Job title: Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Duration: Full Time
Rate: $Negotiable
Location: Dallas TX & Jersey City NJ
The Infrastructure Solutions Architect
is a skilled, experienced architect who is an expert in the Infrastructure
domain with proficiency across most, if not all, of the domains and disciplines
of IT Infrastructure Architecture. The ISA will act as an individual
contributor but work closely with multiple business lines and IT SME’s from
inception to delivery.
Must have an overall understating of principle guidelines
within TOGAF and ITIL and an understanding of global, complex and regulated
compliance definitions (SSAE16, SOX, PCI, etc…) as it relates to IT
Infrastructure.
The Solution Architect is the main contact for the Global
Solutions team and manages the relationship with IT IS management teams
(Vertical Service Leaders, Infrastructure Consulting Managers, Program Managers
and Projects Managers) to provide the required pre-sales support and assists
the team in shaping the opportunities.
Key Skills:
Solution Architects with strong techno-commercial Infrastructure expertise.
a) Excellent Technical Architect (focused on Infra technologies)
b) Should have Compute, Storage and Backup knowledge.
c) Should have experience in providing Hybrid clouds with knowledge of Private and Public clouds.
Management Skills
- Client
orientation
- Strong
thought leadership
- Teamwork
and communication/ information sharing
- Strong
communication skills in both technical and business areas
Job Scope
- Ability
to translate business requirement to IT and functional concepts
- Good
knowledge of end-to-end IT operations and infrastructure landscape
- Provides
strong architect expertise to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture
supports and aligns with business initiatives and technology strategy.
- Drives
the creation and implementation of architecture standards and artifacts in
a complex, global, regulated environment.
- Engages
both, enterprise and domain SME’s to ensure that overall Enterprise
Architecture is inclusive of all stakeholder viewpoints to ensure
recommendation and strategy aligns with overall enterprise goals.
- Strategically
analyze the risks, benefits, and opportunities associated with a
technology solution and makes sound decisions based on key business and
technical drivers.
- Design
and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated systems and develops
architectural metrics and reports for the executive team, business and IT
management stakeholders accordingly.
- Communicate,
review and obtain sign-off on all architectural decisions, plans, goals
and strategies.
In addition, the Solutions Architect works, closely, with
the Sales team and positions IT Infrastructures Services to the client. This
leader creates and edits supporting sales collateral for client opportunities.
This role will facilitate the deal review for assets or services that are not
covered as core competencies. The Solutions Architect will present the IT IS
services catalogue and strategy in customer meetings
Additional Responsibilities:
- Interfaces
with the Professional Services teams on complex bids
- Liaises
with Partners/Vendors to fulfill responses
Leads pre-Sales Solution design for Infrastructure
Outsourcing opportunities across a broad range of IT Infrastructure outsourcing
projects and managed service responses that require some or all of the
following scope of experience:
- Service
desk
- Desktop
management
- Remote
server management, DB/Middleware/Application Operations
- Data
center hosting/ Cloud (IaaS)
- Security
and network operations
- Identifies and collates the competency/development
requirements
- Works with our alliance partners to update, train and
enable the Solution team on new technologies /solutions in the
marketplace.
- Leads and conducts performance management and provides
learning and development opportunities of and for the Solution team on a
continuous basis
- Manages the bid pipeline, allocation of appropriate
resources and reviews solutions on a regular basis.
- Gives feedback to Product Management on new service
features, pricing issues, and other service related issues.
- Lead and anchor workshops / discussions with clients
& partners to arrive at solutions addressing business needs with a
keen focus on solution pricing:
- Defines
transition and transformation roadmaps aligned with end-state architecture
to enable business
- Develops
governance and management structures for successful execution of the
engagements
- Defines
the overall solution approach and articulates the solution issues risks
and mitigation strategies
- Prepares
and defines pricing, SLA definition, SLA penalties onsite/ offshore team
composition, delivery models, service coverage
- Works
with partner organizations to integrate hosting and/or remote desktop
field services. Must be able to translate requirements and understand the
risks and commercial aspects of partnering Drive bid efforts and solution
teams for RFP’s/ RFI’s globally
- Advises/
supports the bid management teams on financial constructs and proposal
creation
- Has
in-depth knowledge of common Infrastructure commercial pricing methods
- Coordinates
with enabling teams (technical architects, delivery managers, etc.) to
ensure there is an integrated bid to the client
- Facilitates
deal reviews with senior management for deal qualification and delivery
feasibility assessment
- Handle
workshops with the client and/or analyst communication across requirement
gathering, solution modeling and SOW creation
Skill and Experience:
- 15+ years of IT infrastructure services experience,
preferably in Infrastructure Outsourcing
- Global experience managing Infrastructure Outsourcing
bids
- Strong managed desktop services or hosting / Remote
infrastructure management pre-sales solution experience
- Excellent Client facing skills, preferably at CIO/ CXO
levels with the ability to capture the audience and sell the solution
- 5+ years of pre-sales technical support, with good
understanding of Infrastructure technologies and services (covering the
breadth of technologies). Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to multitask and handle multiple assignments,
simultaneously
- Ability to manage deliverables across multiple
internal and external organizations on a global basis
- Have ability to understand customer needs and
requirements and translates these needs into a winning solution approach.
- Have ability to take salient features of our solution
approach and communicate the business value of these solutions to our
clients.
Christo Shan
Technical Recruiter
VDart Inc
Ph: 678-720-3153
Fax: 8664312320
E-mail ID:
christo@vdartinc.com / www.vdartinc.com
YIM - shan.christo / Gtalkchristo.vdartinc
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