Cloud Pre-sales Architect

1 week ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Full time R1 200 000 - R2 400 000 per year
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The Cloud Pre-sales Architect is a developing subject matter expert, responsible for supporting with defining the architecture for large systems.

This role assists with conducting system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.

The Cloud Pre-sales Architect participates in architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.

Key responsibilities:
  • Participate in system design activities and proactively support the review of detailed application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks.
  • Receives instructions to ensure architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
  • Assists with the review of existing system architecture and recommend improvements
  • Takes direction from various stakeholders to investigate and scope change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required.
  • Proactively supports the determining system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements.
  • Receives instructions to ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company's goals and strategies.
  • Proactively supports the design and development of new systems and solutions.
  • Receives instructions to ensure that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction.
  • Takes direction from various stakeholders to conduct architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
  • Receives instructions to identify, evaluate, and assess risks in order to mitigate them and eliminate any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements
  • Assists with the implementation of processes for integrating architectural solutions.
  • Proactively supports the implementation of architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture.
  • Proactively supports the implementation of and/or maintain the use of fitness functions to ensure architectural success.
  • Contributes to identifying potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions.
  • Performs any related task as required.
To thrive in this role, you need to have:
  • Business acumen with good communication and organizational skills.
  • Ability to deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
  • Developing knowledge of system architecture, design, and delivery.
  • Developing understanding of regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
  • Developing knowledge of the system design lifecycle models.
  • Developing ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components.
  • Developing ability to design and select system components.
  • Good planning and decision-making skills.
  • Developing ability to use a variety of design tools.
  • Developing understanding of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD.
  • Developing expertise in containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes.
  • Developing expertise in data security and privacy best practices.
  • Developing knowledge of clean code concepts, design patterns, test driven (TDD) and behavioral driven development (BDD).
Academic qualifications and certifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect); TOGAF preferred.
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
    Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
    Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) (optional but beneficial)
    Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (Optional but good)
Required experience:
  • 5+ years in cloud architecture or presales roles
  • Proven track record in Azure solution design, cost optimization, and migration strategies
  • Experience in customer workshops, RFP/RFI responses, and technical presentations
  • Familiarity with multi-cloud environments and hybrid architectures
  • Exposure to industry verticals (e.g., banking, insurance, retail) for tailored solutions
Skills:
Technical: Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS; Networking; Identity & Access Management; Security & Compliance; Cost Management
Presales: Solution positioning, value articulation, proposal writing, demo delivery
Soft Skills: Strong communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, storytelling
Tools: Azure Portal, ARM templates, Terraform, PowerShell, Cost calculators

Workplace type:
Hybrid Working

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