Technical Architect

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Provides primarily pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions.

Uses in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations.

Assists the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and may prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions.

May create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions.

May build a mini-application based on customer requirements to demonstrate the feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for a client.

May provide consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation.

Report only those incumbents with incentives not tied to product sales.

Working at NTT

Technical Architects take responsibility for specifying and designing solutions based on their technical expertise across one or more technology domains. The individual in this position takes responsibility for the successful overall technical design and build of the custom elements of the solution to meet a client’s business requirements.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Select and apply appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, consistent with the agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensure that these are effectively applied and adopted.
• Guide successful implementation and execution of system solutions.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the planning and operations processes.
• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
• Defines and manages to scope requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
• Designs components using appropriate modeling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology.
• Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current infrastructure, architecture, system capabilities, and business challenges.
• Ensure technical solutions accomplish the client’s objectives.
• Work with Solutions Architects (SAs) to produce a technical specification for the solution’s custom development and systems integration requirements.
• Develop the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Lead the scope of work determination, product pricing, and RFP/RFI responses and assist with the decision to pursue or abort a deal.
• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which require the appropriation of appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.

Knowledge, skills, and attributes

• Demonstrate broad product knowledge integrated with strong technology understanding
• Good understanding of the vendor’s products, business, and technology positioning
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to establish and create excellent client relationships with their technical expertise
• Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains
• Knowledgeable in core frameworks used
• Strong knowledge of the problem domain that their systems are to provide solutions for

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science or Information Systems
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
• Relevant vendor and industry certifications, e.g. Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle,
• Software and programming languages, e.g. C++
• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous

Experience required:

• Proven track record as a developer and architect of new systems/solutions
• Previous work experience working as a systems administrator or network engineer
• Proven client engagement and development consulting experience
• Experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints
• Proven experience in a variety of architectures for specific domain or specialization
• Experienced designer and development know-how
• Project management experience
• Experience presenting technical solutions to non-technical audiences
• Experience working in an agile development environment

Skills Summary

Advisory Services, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Management Platform, Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, Containerization, Continuous Deployment, Data Migrations, Ensure Compliance, Infrastructure Deployment, Process Orchestration, Serverless Computing

What will make you a good fit for the role?

Remote Type:

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A career at NTT means:

• Being part of a global pioneer – where you gain exposure to our Fortune 500 clients and world-leading global technology partners and work with a network of over 40,000 smart and diverse colleagues across 57 countries, delivering services in over 200 countries.

• Being at the forefront of cutting-edge technology – backed with a 150-year heritage of using technology for good. With 40% of the world’s internet traffic running on our network and where Emoji were first invented, you can be proud of the group’s many new ‘firsts’.

• Making a difference – by doing meaningful work that helps to shape the future for our clients, and across industries and communities around the world.

• Being your best self – in a progressive ‘Connected Working’ environment that promotes flexibility, connection and wellbeing. Where diversity and different perspectives are embraced to ensure equal opportunities for all.

• Having ongoing opportunities to own and develop your career – with a personal and professional development plan and access to the broadest learning offerings in the industry.