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The Senior Services Architect is an advanced subject matter expert and is also a pre-sales persona working with clients and sales/delivery teams in a value co-creation process resulting in the design of Technical Services, Support Services & Managed Services solutions across multiple technology domains. This role is responsible for the development of competitive, innovative, secure, multi-year, viable Managed Services solutions and associated costing inputs to commercial models. The Senior Services Architect applies both solution design and sales skills to engage and help close opportunities with decision-makers. This role has the opportunity to design solutions with some of the most innovative global organizations, technologies, accelerating the digital transformation business objectives and outcomes. In some instances, the Senior Services Architect will remain engaged during and post the implementation of services designed and may be required to participate in renewals.
Job Responsibility:
Guides a virtual team of domain experts to orchestrate the development of secure, multiple year, services solutions
Designs complex Professional Services (PS), Support Services (SS) and Managed Services (MS) solutions to meet client requirements by integrating technology and service design across multiple domains
Works across multiple teams in the design of the PS, SS & MS offering
Tests and validates new designs features and delivery models or recommend improving existing service offers that is being taken to market
Responsible for the service design deliverables of the solution and interfacing with multiple teams and partners to ensure supportability
Directs the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service and costing stakeholders
Leads the service design of solutions for the client that will be commercially competitive whilst mitigating risk
Maps the client's requirements against proposed set of service elements and architectures and leads the end-to-end solution development (Cloud Services, Technology Architectures, SIAM, SLA, ITSM leading practices)
Develops and executes a consulting approach that results in a consolidated statement of requirements, scope, transition documents and costing based need for change, role of IT, definition of the AS-IS versus desired state (Future Mode of operation defined), gap analysis and roadmap, highlighted impacts, consequences and benefits of the intended transformation (people, process, technology)
Supports the sales teams in presenting an architecture solution to clients with a focus on cost savings or uncovering other client growth opportunities using the ability to discover and analyze the client’s current architecture, platforms and operating models
Shares client outcomes and market conditions with other stakeholders so that the global offering leads, and services community can evolve strategies and develop innovative solutions for the future
Requirements:
Advanced knowledge of PS, SS & MS delivery and service models, including cloud, global, and distributed delivery models
Ability to work with costing models in partnership with sales and finance stakeholders
Advanced proficiency in Application and Cloud/Infrastructure PS, SS & MS service models
Ability to communicate potential improvements and value of our solutions to all levels of stakeholders
Ability to facilitate workshops with clients and internal teams to discover requirements, present solutions and obtain client buy-in
Ability to work within a team, contributing to the success of the team while making a personal contribution, especially in a matrixed organization
Advanced knowledge on emerging trends in technology, PS, SS & MS Integration, Application development – devSecOps, Cloud Native Service Applications, Microsoft development platforms, and Open-Source Software, Cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP, DATA Analytics, Containers, rPA, IoT, and Intelligent Automation
Analytical abilities to discover and analyze all input and DATA
Passion for staying abreast of related industry trends and best practices
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information technology/systems or a related field
Certification and working knowledge of ITIL, Service Management and Integration, Automation Artificial Intelligence and Analytics preferred
Scaled Agile certification or equivalent is desirable
Additional desirable technology / vendor certifications are AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Training, MS Azure Fundamentals Training, or the latest equivalent
Advanced demonstratable track record of designing services solutions to large enterprise accounts
Advanced experience in structuring large, multi-year profitable contracts
Advanced solution planning and deal shaping expertise, with the ability to create compelling value propositions as part of the solution design
Advanced experience working in an environment with global delivery and in multiple geographies and industries
Nice to have:
Certification and working knowledge of ITIL, Service Management and Integration, Automation Artificial Intelligence and Analytics
Scaled Agile certification or equivalent
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Training, MS Azure Fundamentals Training, or the latest equivalent