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The Senior Associate Cloud Services Architect is an entry level subject matter expert and is also a pre-sales persona, required to develop their skills to work with clients and sales/delivery teams in a value co-creation process resulting in the design of less complex Managed Services solutions across the Cloud technology domain.

This role is responsible for the development of competitive, innovative, secure, multi-year, viable Managed Services solutions and associated costing inputs to commercial models.

Taking guidance when required, the Senior Associate Cloud Services Architect applies both solution design and sales skills to engage and help close opportunities with decision-makers.

This role has the opportunity to design solutions with some of the most innovative global organizations, technologies, accelerating the digital transformation business objectives and outcomes.

• Manage VNets and Subnets within Azure, including designing and implementing VNets peering, Network Security Groups, Route tables

• Understanding of DNS Zones within Azure, including setting up DNS records and resolving DNS-related issues.

• Understanding of Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints

• Understanding of Azure Load Balancers, Traffic Managers and Application Gateways

• Deploying & Troubleshooting S2S & P2S VPN at Azure

• Experienced in managing Azure Firewall

• Strong understanding of Azure networking services:

Azure Virtual Network, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute

• Familiarity with Monitoring tools like Network Watcher and Azure Monitor.

• Certificate: Fundamentals & associate

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Designs less complex managed service solutions to meet client requirements by integrating technology and service design across the Cloud domain.

• Conducts sales presentations, product demonstrations, installation, and maintenance of company products.

• Supports the design of the Managed Service offering, interfacing with the platform delivery team.

• Tests and validates new designs features and delivery models or provide suggestions on improving existing service offers that is being taken to market

• Supports the service design deliverables of the solution, working with internal teams and partners to ensure supportability.

• Implements the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service, and costing stakeholders.

• Maps the client's requirements against the proposed set of service elements and architectures and coordinates the end-to-end solution development (Cloud Services, Technology Architectures, SIAM, SLA, ITSM leading practices).

• Implements a consulting approach that results in a consolidated statement of requirements, scope, transition documents, and costing based need for change, the role of IT, definition of the AS-IS versus desired state (Future Mode of operation defined), gap analysis, and roadmap, highlighted impacts, consequences, and benefits of the intended transformation (people, process, technology).

• Supports the sales teams in presenting an architecture solution to clients with a focus on cost savings or uncovering other client growth opportunities using the ability to discover and analyze the client’s current architecture, platforms, and operating models.

• Shares client outcomes and market conditions with other stakeholders so that the global offering leads, and Managed Services community can evolve strategies and develop innovative solutions for the future

• Supports the sales teams to have a commercial model discussion with the client

• Identifies all service costs and populates cost models accurately to ensure full visibility of costs related to the delivery of the service over the contract term

• Assists with vendor management depending on the service offers and ensures that the transition to service delivery teams are well coordinated to ensure a smooth transition

• Performs any other related task as required.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Understanding of cloud technologies, networking, security, and system administration.

• Working knowledge and value of multi cloud technologies especially cloud native application workflows, understanding of architecture transformation, observability and legacy to cloud migrations.

• Basic Azure and/or GCP and/or AWS infrastructure architect and presales skills.

• Good communication and presentation abilities, coupled with ability to facilitate workshops with clients and internal teams to discover requirements, present solutions and obtain client buy-in.

• Basic level understanding of virtualization, hybrid computing environments, storage technology and cloud native technologies.

• Developing knowledge of Managed Services service and delivery models, including cloud, global, and distributed delivery models.

• Displays the ability to work with costing models in partnership with sales and finance stakeholders.

• Ability to communicate potential improvements and value of solutions to all levels of stakeholders.

• Ability to work within a team, contributing to the success of the team while making a personal contribution, especially in a matrixed organization.

• Up to date knowledge on emerging trends in Cloud technology and related managed services.

• Displays analytical abilities to discover and analyze all input and data.

• Passion for staying abreast of related industry trends and best practices.

• Passion for learning and growing in related specialization.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information technology/systems or a related field.

• Certification and working knowledge of ITIL, Service Management and Integration, Automation Artificial Intelligence and Analytics preferred.

• Scaled Agile certification or equivalent is desirable.

• Additional desirable technology / vendor certifications are (any one or more) - Azure AZ900 – Azure Fundamentals, AWS Cloud Practitioner, VMWare: VTSP or VTSP for AWS/Azure.

Required Experience:

• Moderate level of experience in designing cloud managed services solutions to large enterprise accounts.

• Moderate level of experience in structuring, multi-year profitable contracts.

• Moderate level of solution planning and deal shaping technical experience, with the ability to create compelling value propositions as part of the solution design.

• Moderate level demonstrated experience working in an environment with global delivery and in multiple geographies and industries.

• Moderate level demonstrated experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions, preferably in a managed cloud services environment.

Workplace type :

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

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