Senior Principal IT Solution Architect

NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today’s ‘iNTTerconnected’ world, connections matter more now than ever. By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world’s most significant technological, business and societal challenges.

With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.

**Want to be a part of our team?**

**Working at NTT**

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Advise and execute on the best design for information technology architectures.
- Designs and communicates high level structure to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs.
- Create designs that provide holistic views, but also contain the details of the components and interconnections between components.
- Involved with projects at the time of inception and is involved along with the project manager in the planning and governance of projects and the functional analysis (FA) of developing the initial requirements.
- Contribute advice on improving methodology frameworks.
- Manage the proof of concept (POC) initiatives.
- Researches and investigates emerging infrastructure technologies and the best practices associated with these trends.
- Contribute to the improvement of internal effectiveness by contributing to improving current methodologies, processes and tools.

**Knowledge, Skills and Attributes**:

- ** Market-leading Stakeholder Management** **influence and collaborative Culture-fit**:

- Facilitate a consultative approach with Business Domain owners to gather and document requirements, align to though leadership and best practice, to produce innovative digital business solution architecture and related domain roadmap and program direction
- Use concurrent-transformation as an approach to combine internal and external knowledge and skills in the domain area, to create a vision of future solutions, aligned to clear business outcomes and metrics, and present this via communication forums that create buy-in and joint aligned commitment to the strategy
- Expert in Enterprise and Solution Architecture principles and practices
- Excellent Executive communication and presentation skills, with experience dealing with business groups and all levels of the organization; and self - sufficient in the development of Executive Communication materials, for presentation to C-Level
- Ability to explain complex technical solutions to audiences at different technical knowledge
- Proficiency in English
- Ability to work well independently and in collaborative, cross
- discipline environments
- Positive ‘can-do’ attitude with problem-solving; service-orientation and collaborative ethos - ‘How can I help’
- **Technology Depth and Breadth within your domain and across domain integration areas**:

- In depth experience of the design and configuration of IT solutions
- Ability to construct solutions using their expertise of more of the functions offerings
- Expert knowledge on multi-technology software, OS’s and infrastructure design best practices in a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices
- Deep knowledge of reference architectures
- Good knowledge of project management principles
- Knowledge of vendor roadmaps, new developments and new product offerings
- Analytical in their approach
- Display the required interpersonal and communication skills to effectively interact with a variety of stakeholders
- Ability to share and communicate ideas clearly, both orally and in writing, to executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources in clear concise language

**Academic Qualifications and Certifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field of study
- TOGAF / COBIT or related certification
- Scaled Agile certification would be preferred

**Required Experience**:

- Experience in SALESFORCE, SERVICENOW, SAP CX, SAP ECC/S4 Integration, HYBRIS, SAP COMMERCE/eStore, Amazon Whitelabel solutions and Cloud Solution integration
- Good understanding of Sales Best Business Practice in Telecommunications, Professional Services and High Tech Industry solutions - and specifically in XaaS design principles
- Hands-on experience in multiple end-to-end Salesforce - CPQ - Estore-SAP S4/ECC project implementations
- Experience with projects through the software development process or Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Demonstrable experience working as a solution architect in a global IT services provider organisation

**What will make you a good fit for the role?**

**Scope of Role**:
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