Cloud Solutions Architect at MainOne

Department: Technical
Job Type: Permanent

Responsibilities

• The Solutions Architect will develop and articulate solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customer's organization.

Other responsibilities include:

• Provide subject matter expertise and recommendations for Cloud computing technologies and architectural patterns as well as maintain responsibility for the design of a customer solution.
• Provide technical and business consultative leadership throughout the technical life cycle of cloud solutions.
• Will be involved from pre-sales solution formulation through system deployment; including bid preparation and customer interface resulting in cloud solutions architecture proposals.
• Prepare the technical solutions architectural and implementation design documents.
• Work closely with Project Managers to define project deliverable and schedules.
• Help to identify and leverage resources in order to satisfy the technical needs and objectives of the implementation.
• Assess solutions for their commercial merits and provide appropriate recommendations.
• Maintain awareness of existing or potential customer software/hardware situations and proactively alert the project management, engineering, and customer facing groups of potential problems based upon strong working knowledge of cloud solutions including software/hardware compatibility within the customer's environment.
• The Solutions Architect will stay current on technical specifications for cloud hardware/software requirements of industry products through professional associations, trade journals, networking, and associated training and seminars.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• At least eight (8) years industry experience
• At least 3 years’ experience in a Cloud Solutions Architect role.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Information Communication Technology or Engineering.