Solutions Architect: Business Development

overview

A client based in Johannesburg is currently seeking a Solutions Architect: Business Development professional to join their team
- The role calls for providing; solutions across multiple levels, technical understanding and expertise across multiple platforms, infrastructure and hybrid cloud systems, in order to develop designs, solutions, architectures and documentation as input to the sales process for customers from start to the conclusion of a sales deal

description
- Provide technical architecture and high-level designs
- Perform as a Tech-Lead in the development, design, and implementation of solutions
- Collaborate with Engineering, Account Managers and Project Managers
- Interact with clients to create requirement specifications for technical proposals and designs
- Innovate new solutions and keep up with new emerging technologies
- Analyse and understand the business requirements and translate the requirements into a
- technical solution architecture
- Analysing the technology environment and enterprise specifics
- Cost the solution and proposal end-to-end
- Document requirements
- Creating solution prototypes
- Participating in technology selection
- Understanding of finance and business processes
- Identification and formulation of solution architecture and solution alternatives
- Keep abreast of the latest trends and emerging technologies
- Facilitate Proof-of-Concepts for proposed solutions
- Present solutions and proposals to customers
- Research and present internally on new and emerging technologies and solutions

experience, qualifications and skills
- 10+ years working experience within the backup and storage IT industry
- 5+ years experience in architecting supporting technologies.
Exposure to business finance and buying requirements desirable.
- Proposal writing experience.
Business development /sales knowledge
- Extensive track record implementing and managing large complex enterprise storage solutions desirable
- Extensive track record in designing and deploying large complex enterprise storage and backup solutions desirable
- Experience in designing storage technology and integrating various cloud storage options desirable
Experience in designing backup infrastructure and supplementing with cloud storage desirable
- Experience in capacity planning and analysis of the current landscape of storage workloads
- Experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architecture, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support highly desirable

**Qualifications**:

- NQF 6 Technical diploma or relevant technical experience
- NQF 7 or higher will be advantageous
- Valid code 8 driver’s license and own reliable transport

**Skills**:

- Self-motivated and adaptable
- MS Office literacy (Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Outlook essential)
- Skills with Azure and AWS will be advantageous
- Experience with MS Project will be advantageous
- Ability to work independently and meet daily tasks
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to meet stringent deadlines
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
- Ability to articulate solutions from a technical and business perspective
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong understanding of backup and storage technologies and architecture
- Backup technology e.g. Veritas, Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik knowledge and certification advantageous
- Storage, high availability and data management knowledge and certification advantageous
- Understanding of infrastructure architecture and the data lifecycle
- Working knowledge of cloud architecture