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As a Senior Principal Software Solutions Architect at NTT DATA, you'll leverage your extensive expertise to create integrated infrastructure software solutions. Collaborating with architectural consulting teams, you'll lead in architecting client-specific solutions that not only meet but exceed their expectations. You will outline complex infrastructure software solutions across various domains, ensuring seamless functionality and integration.
Job Responsibility
Lead end-to-end architecture for hybrid cloud environments spanning on-premise data centers, private cloud, and public cloud platforms
Create high-level and low-level designs, reference architectures, migration roadmaps, operational runbooks, and transition plans
Act as a hands-on architect for infrastructure, cloud landing zones, network connectivity, security controls, identity, backup, monitoring, and automation
Assess current-state IT landscapes and define target-state hybrid cloud solutions aligned to business, technical, security, compliance, and cost objectives
Drive cloud migration and modernization planning, including workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration waves, and risk mitigation
Design and integrate managed services operating models, including ITIL-aligned processes, monitoring, incident/problem/change management, capacity management, patching, backup, DR, and service reporting
Support Day-2 operations readiness by ensuring solutions are supportable, observable, resilient, cost-managed, and aligned to SLAs/OLAs
Engage directly with client stakeholders, including CIO/CTO teams, enterprise architects, infrastructure leads, security teams, procurement, and business owners
Contribute to proposals, solution costing, effort estimation, commercial models, RFP/RFI responses, statements of work, and governance reviews
Collaborate with delivery, operations, security, application, network, and commercial teams to ensure successful solution implementation and handover
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, design governance, and architecture review support across multiple projects or client engagements
Requirements
Minimum 15 years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, and enterprise solution design
Strong hands-on expertise in on-premise platforms, including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and data center operations
Proven experience designing hybrid cloud solutions using one or more public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform
Strong understanding of private cloud, virtualization, container platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native operating models
Deep knowledge of managed services operations and Day-2 support models, including service transition, operations governance, SLA management, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement
Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and commercially viable architecture solutions
Experience with cloud connectivity patterns such as VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, SD-WAN, routing, DNS, firewalling, and hybrid identity integration
Strong understanding of security architecture, IAM, zero trust principles, encryption, vulnerability management, compliance controls, and operational risk
Commercial awareness with ability to support solution pricing, cost optimization, financial governance, service scope definition, and risk/commercial trade-off discussions
Excellent client-facing communication skills, with ability to present complex architecture topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong team player with proven ability to work across pre-sales, delivery, operations, and customer teams
Nice to have
Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or Google Professional Cloud Architect
TOGAF, ITIL Foundation / Managing Professional, VMware, Kubernetes, security, or networking certifications are desirable