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The Services Architect role at NTT DATA involves designing innovative Managed Services solutions while engaging with clients and sales teams. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in cloud services, solution design, and cost management, along with fluency in Japanese and English. A bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related field is required, and certifications in ITIL and Scaled Agile are preferred. This position offers the opportunity to work with leading global organizations and contribute to digital transformation initiatives.
Job Responsibility:
Designs relatively complex managed service solutions to meet client requirements by integrating technology and service design across multiple domains
Conducts sales presentations, product demonstrations, installation, and maintenance of company products
Designs the Managed Service offering, interfacing with the platform delivery team
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, working with internal teams and partners to ensure supportability
Supports the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service, and costing stakeholders
Provides services design of solutions for the client that will be commercially competitive whilst mitigating risk
Maps the client's requirements against the proposed set of service elements and architectures and coordinate the end-to-end solution development (Cloud Services, Technology Architectures, SIAM, SLA, ITSM leading practices)
Executes a consulting approach that results in a consolidated statement of requirements, scope, transition documents, and costing based need for change, the 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)
Assists 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 Managed Services community can evolve strategies and develop innovative solutions for the future
Assists the sales teams to have a commercial model discussion with the client
Identifies all service costs and populate cost models accurately to ensure full visibility of costs related to the delivery of the service over the contract term
Assist with vendor management depending on the service offers and ensures that the transition to service delivery teams are well coordinated to ensure a smooth transition
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information technology/systems or a related field
Fluent communications skill in Japanese (minimum JLPT N2) & English languages
Seasoned track record of designing managed services solutions to large enterprise accounts
Seasoned demonstrated proof of structuring large, multi-year profitable contracts
Solution planning and deal shaping technical specialist, with the ability to create compelling value propositions as part of the solution design
Seasoned experience working in an environment with global delivery and in multiple geographies and industries
Seasoned knowledge of Managed Services service and delivery models, including cloud, global, and distributed delivery models
Ability to work with costing models in partnership with sales and finance stakeholders
Seasoned proficiency in Application and Cloud/Infrastructure Managed Services
Ability to communicate potential improvements and value of 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
Up to date knowledge on emerging trends in technology, Managed Services 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
Passion for learning and growing in related specialization
Nice to have:
Certification and working knowledge of ITIL, Service Management and Integration, Automation Artificial Intelligence and Analytics
Scaled Agile certification or equivalent
Additional desirable technology / vendor certifications are AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Training, MS Azure Fundamentals Training, or the latest equivalent