Senior Principal Solutions Architect

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The Senior Principal Solutions Architect is a highly skilled and advanced subject matter expert, primarily responsible for consulting with the client and works with internal teams to lead and create strategies, transformational designs and the architectural vision for large and the most 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.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads the development of the most complex solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Identifies, advises on and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Provides exemplary pre-sales technical expertise through technical leadership, consistent communication, and ongoing technical consultation.
• Shares responsibility for win strategy with sales and leads the client discovery with relevant insights and articulate how our proven solution and services deliver tangible results.
• Works with Client facing teams to influence subscription license sales, provide educational inputs and act as SPOC for all licensing-related technical queries.
• Analyses client software purchases to identify suitable bundles for effective commercial license proposal.
• Leads transformation deals on the conversion of current software licenses into Enterprise Agreements, change to optimal license structure etc.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Continuously monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Leads the design of components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
• Makes recommendations for the development of new go to market services and promotes and leads specialist knowledge on relevant verticals.
• Operates across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced Solutions Architects.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Significant knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs.
• Significant ability to share and communicate ideas clearly, both orally and in writing, to executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources in clear concise language.
• Significant knowledge of different licensing models – Perpetual, Right To Use, End-User, Subscription, Enterprise Agreements, etc.
• Significant knowledge of key vendors licensing models, such as Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare and Palo Alto license structure, license tools and license commercial model.
• Ability to develop and leverage their significant specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Significant ability to collaborate with cross functional teams such as sales, product, delivery etc.
• Ability to leverage own personal network to open doors for new opportunities.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or business or a related field.
• Certified Software related certification is desired.
• Cisco CCIE and/or Cisco CCXP certification strongly desired.

Required Experience:

• Significant demonstrated experience in digital infrastructure of the key vendor’s software feature and technology capabilities.
• Significant demonstrated experience in providing an end-to-end design and solution in the aspect of the digital infrastructure.
• Significant prior experience in key vendors l