Principal Cloud Services Architect
About The Position
As a Principal Cloud Services Architect at NTT DATA, your expertise will shine as you create complex, innovative cloud solutions that meet and exceed client expectations. You will engage closely with our clients and sales/delivery teams, blending solution design with pre-sales activities to drive value co-creation. Leveraging your skills, you will help design secure, multi-year Managed Services solutions and play a pivotal role in their implementation. Each day, you'll design advanced managed service solutions that integrate seamless technology and service design across the cloud domain. Your role includes leading the Managed Service offering's design, testing and validating new features, and enhancing existing service offers. You will interface with delivery and r&d teams to ensure our solutions are innovative, competitive, and secure. You will map client requirements against a set of service elements and architectures, leading the full solution development process. You will facilitate workshops, analyze client architecture, and present solutions that highlight cost savings and growth opportunities. Your work will involve everything from defining service elements and ensuring compliance and risk mitigation to developing robust transition documents and roadmaps. Not only will you design these cutting-edge solutions, but you'll also remain engaged post-implementation, ensuring smooth transitions and participating in renewals where necessary. You'll mentor sales teams, coach colleagues, and act as an advisor, sharing insights and driving our commitment to excellence. Your expertise will help shape the future of digital transformation for some of the most innovative global organizations.
Requirements
- Extensive understanding of cloud technologies, networking, security, and system administration.
- Advanced grasp of multi-cloud technologies, cloud-native workflows, and legacy-to-cloud migrations.
- Applied experience with Azure, GCP, and AWS infrastructure architectures.
- Deep knowledge of Managed Services delivery models.
- Strong ability to work with costing models, collaborating closely with sales and finance.
- Proficiency in communicating the value of our solutions to stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to facilitate workshops to gather requirements and present solutions.
- Collaborative mindset, thriving in team environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology/systems or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Design complex, innovative cloud solutions.
- Engage closely with clients and sales/delivery teams.
- Blend solution design with pre-sales activities.
- Design secure, multi-year Managed Services solutions.
- Lead the Managed Service offering's design.
- Test and validate new features.
- Enhance existing service offers.
- Interface with delivery and r&d teams.
- Map client requirements against service elements and architectures.
- Lead the full solution development process.
- Facilitate workshops to gather requirements.
- Analyze client architecture.
- Present solutions highlighting cost savings and growth opportunities.
- Define service elements.
- Ensure compliance and risk mitigation.
- Develop robust transition documents and roadmaps.
- Remain engaged post-implementation to ensure smooth transitions.
- Participate in renewals.
- Mentor sales teams.
- Coach colleagues.
- Act as an advisor, sharing insights and driving commitment to excellence.
Benefits
- 10% Bonus target compensation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
