Senior Cloud Solutions Architect in Port Elizabeth needed at NTT Ltd.

Your day at NTT DATA

• The Senior Solutions Architect is an advanced subject matter expert, primarily responsible for consulting with the client and working with internal teams to create strategies, transformational designs and the architectural vision for more complex solutions that address the clients’ needs.
• This role provides multi-technology consulting services on all aspects of application software, infrastructure and related technology components.
• This role is part of the CSD GTM practice responsible for cloud transformation and application modernization solutions for Cloud. This team responds and supports the Global GTM Sales and On-Shore Solution Architects on requests and cases, to solution Cloud Migration and Application Modernization using Agile and DevOps with POD operating model. The successful candidate must partner with account executives to drive strategic account planning and collaborate across multiple business units and portfolios to orchestrate and bring end to end solutions to our customers.

What you’ll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• The role needs a Cloud visionary leader with strategic thinking with 10+ Years of IT experience including 5+ years of Cloud Solution Architect, who is known for being accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Primarily involved in the technical pre-sales process working alongside NTT client Executives and Sales Specialists to assess clients’ business needs and narrow down the potential solutions and platforms that would be the best fit for client business goals, while identifying and evaluating alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Someone with proactive approach mindset and attitude, who is a great motivator, brings people together and synergize them to achieve exponential growth and makes recommendations for the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
• Demonstrate knowledge and value of technologies, platforms, private clouds (AWS, Azure and Google) with experience in an Architect role for 2- 4 yearsGood hands-on AWS Services like, EC2, ECS, Fargate, Docker on AWS, Lamdba, RDS, Cloud Watch, Cloud trail, MongoDB or Azure equivalent
• Expertise in Cloud Migration and demonstrable experience of having successfully migrated a customer to a major public cloud platform like AWS/Azure/GCP
• Expertise in Cloud modernization with microservices, DDD and other cloud native services
• Expertise in using public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) to build solutions solving business problems and making innovative use of SaaS and PaaS offerings.
• Understands whole solution architecture concepts and can communicate and negotiate designs with customer architects.
• Expertise in Cloud Governance and compliance.
• Able to devise novel migration approaches when migrating unsupported systems and high level estimation for different treatment types (rehost, re-platform, refactor, & re-architect)
• Able to simply and clearly communicate technical design both high level and low level – in conversation, documentation and presentations.
• Able to make effective decisions within fast-moving delivery.
• Working knowledge of cloud automation services and tooling.
• Experience mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community
• Active participation in knowledge sharing activities, both within the team and at a wider capability level and externally where appropriate.
• Proven ability in Cloud assessment (AWS/Azure) to arrive at the ideal treatment option and present/convince the client on the same.
• Contribute to sales process improvement, including developing knowledge bases, sharing practices with other Solution Architects
• Maintain relevant cloud and technology certification, be aware of NTT cloud offerings and be a subject matter expert for multiple sections within the NTT portfolio

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or business or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Safe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.
• Prior experience of at least 7 years in managed services and/or cloud service provider
• Applied Azure and/or GCP and/AWS infrastructure architect and presales skills
• Desired certifications (one or more)
• Azure Associate AZ 900 min, AZ304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification preferred
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• VMWare VTSP or VTSP for AWS/Azure
• ITIL: Version 3 or later

Required Experience:

• Advanced professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support.
• Advanced Project or Program Management experience would be preferred but not essential.
• Advanced client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
• Advanced experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices.
• Advanced experience working in an agile development environment.
• Advanced experience in developing, selling and delivering technical solutions.
• Expertise in utilising the latest migration approaches and technologies including the containerisation of services.
• Has sound knowledge on one or more programming languages (such as C#, Java, legacy programming languages, etc) and application architecture principles
• Has good hands-on knowledge on application integration (distributed) patterns (such as pub/sub, event driven, REST etc)
• Proven experience being accountable for major migration projects, e.g. multi-team/time-based deadlines.
• Has pro-actively developed business across an account with sales and account managers.
• Able to prioritise their time across multiple major projects.
• Expertise in virtualisation using multiple public cloud providers storage technologies and cloud native technologies and on designing Hybrid cloud solutions (over integrations).
• Exposure to Cloud Migration Factory to migrate at scale.
• Ability to facilitate workshops with clients and NTT teams to discover requirements, present solutions and obtain client buy-in

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with excellent interpersonal skills to build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks.
• Ability to develop and leverage their advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
• Ability to keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Advanced ability to collaborate with cross functional teams such as sales, product, delivery etc.
• GEN AI experience and certification a plus