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Grow Your Career with NTT DATA The Senior Principal Solutions Architect is a highly skilled and advanced subject matter expert, primarily responsible for consulting with the client and works with internal teams to lead and create strategies, transformational designs and the architectural vision for large and the most complex solutions that address the clients’ needs. This role provides multi-technology consulting services on all aspects of application software, infrastructure and related technology components. What you'll be doing Key Responsibilities: Leads the development of the most complex solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Identifies, advises on and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability. Provides exemplary pre-sales technical expertise through technical leadership, consistent communication, and ongoing technical consultation. Shares responsibility for win strategy with sales and leads the client discovery with relevant insights and articulate how our proven solution and services deliver tangible results. Works with Client facing teams to influence subscription license sales, provide educational inputs and act as SPOC for all licensing-related technical queries. Analyses client software purchases to identify suitable bundles for effective commercial license proposal. Leads transformation deals on the conversion of current software licenses into Enterprise Agreements, change to optimal license structure etc. Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products. Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Continuously monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others. Leads the design of components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC). Makes recommendations for the development of new go to market services and promotes and leads specialist knowledge on relevant verticals. Operates across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions. Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced Solutions Architects. Knowledge and Attributes: Significant knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs. Significant ability to share and communicate ideas clearly, both orally and in writing, to executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources in clear concise language. Significant knowledge of different licensing models – Perpetual, Right To Use, End-User, Subscription, Enterprise Agreements, etc. Significant knowledge of key vendors licensing models, such as Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare and Palo Alto license structure, license tools and license commercial model. Ability to develop and leverage their significant specialist knowledge of reference architectures. Ability to keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies. Significant ability to collaborate with cross functional teams such as sales, product, delivery etc. Ability to leverage own personal network to open doors for new opportunities. Academic Qualifications and Certifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or business or a related field. Certified Software related certification is desired. Cisco CCIE and/or Cisco CCXP certification strongly desired. Required Experience: Significant demonstrated experience in digital infrastructure of the key vendor’s software feature and technology capabilities. Significant demonstrated experience in providing an end-to-end design and solution in the aspect of the digital infrastructure. Significant prior experience in key vendors licensing models, such as Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare and Palo Alto license compliance. Significant experience evaluating software asset agreements. Significant experience in license/software adoption strategies and frameworks. Significant experience in budgeting and forecasting. Significant experience in multiple industries and across several disciplines. Significant experience with projects through the sales engagement, pre-sales, and also architecture design validation, especially on the infrastructure software technology of key vendor, such as Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft and/or Palo Alto, as well as fully well-versed with the respective vendor’s licensing model and structure. Significant experience working as a solution architect in a global IT services provider organization. Knowledge and application: Applies extensive knowledge of theories, practices, and design matters within and across functional areas. Leads the application of existing principles and guides development of new ideas. Problem solving: Works on issues that impact future success or addresses future concepts and products where solutions are devised based on limited information and requires judgment. Interaction: Creates formal networks with key decision makers and widely recognized as expert and thought leader by both internal and external community. Manages issues across significantly divergent audiences, reconciling multiple stakeholder views to resolve issues that have longer term impacts. Impact: Translates organizational vision into functional plans, exercising wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments. Results impact the medium to long term goals of multiple functional areas. Accountability: Accountable for results which may impact the entire function. Financial impact can be broad and have far reaching impact on the organization but is not easily quantifiable. Workplace type: Hybrid Working Equal Opportunity Employer NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. 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