Senior Solutions Architect Workplace (m/w/d) - bundesweit

• Designs, describes, and calculates multi-vendor solutions with a focus on technologies and solutions from Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft, AudioCodes, and other third-party providers.

• Evaluates, discusses, and presents solutions to clients.

• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.

• Prepares and contributes to customer proposals, including effort estimation, costing, pricing input, and commercially viable solution descriptions in close collaboration with sales and delivery teams.

• Brings subject matter expertise in multi-technology infrastructure design and related best practices.

• Supports a change program or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.

• Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.

• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.

• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

• Provides recommendations for the development of new go-to-market services and contributes domain knowledge across relevant industry verticals.

• Coaches and mentors Junior Solution Architects.

• Works in partnership with internal stakeholders to develop the architectural approach for one or more layers of a solution.

• Exercises sound judgment in selecting appropriate methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to achieve desired outcomes.

Knowledge, skills and attributes:

• Specialist knowledge and strong understanding of the IT industry environment and associated business requirements.

• Extensive, long-standing knowledge and experience with multi-vendor UCC solutions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Good commercial awareness and pre-sales skills, with the ability to translate technical solution concepts into value-based proposals and client-facing recommendations.

• Specialist and long-standing knowledge of configuration and quoting tools from Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft, AudioCodes, and other third-party providers.

• Ability to develop and apply specialist knowledge of reference architectures.

• Ability to maintain current knowledge of technology trends and developments across relevant domains.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Qualification in Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Pre-sales vendor certifications from Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft, AudioCodes, and other third-party providers are desirable.

Experience required:

• At least 10 years of professional technical experience in Workplace and UCC solutions within large-scale, preferably multinational, client environments. Experience should include architecture and solution design for multi-vendor UCC solutions based on Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft, and AudioCodes technologies, as well as the demonstration and presentation of solutions to clients.

• Experience in proposal creation, solution costing, and commercial input for bids or client offers is desirable, particularly in pre-sales or solution architecture roles.

• Proven client engagement and consulting experience, combined with strong expertise in client needs assessment and change management.

Workplace type:

Remote Working

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