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    Senior Services Architect - Cape Town, South Africa - NTT

    NTT
    NTT Cape Town, South Africa

    2 weeks ago

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    Full time
    Description
    JOB DESCRIPTION

    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?

    A Principal Services Architect is a pre-sales persona responsible for working with clients in a value co-creation process and internal sales and delivery teams resulting in the design and demo Managed Services solutions across all technology domains. Key focus areas include Client Experience, Service Management, DevSecOps process/tools and secure data API integration and hybrid delivery modelling. Designs often involve consulting and customized multi-product/multi-vendor solution elements with hardware, software, and cloud services.
    They are accountable for the development of competitive, innovative, secure, multi-year, viable Managed Services solutions and associated costing inputs to commercial models.
    They coordinate a virtual team of domain experts to orchestrate the development of secure, multiple year, services solutions.
    The Principal Services Architect will apply both solution design and sales skills to engage and help close opportunities with decision-makers. They spend a substantial amount of time in front of clients supporting the other internal sales expert teams such as sales, partners and services delivery teams; the delivery teams that will manage the client's solution, continuous improvement and deliverables. Building and developing excellent stakeholder relationships with this virtual team, fully understanding the client and the industry in which they operate will contribute to the success of this role.
    As a Principal Services Architect, you will have the opportunity to design complex solutions with some of the most innovative global organisations, technologies; accelerating the digital transformation business objectives and outcomes.
    In some instances the Principal Services Architect will remain engaged during and post the implementation of services designed and may be required to participate in renewals.

    Working at NTT

    Key Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Design complex managed service solutions to meet client requirements by integrating technology and service design across multiple domains
  • Leads the design of the Managed Service offering, interfacing with the platform delivery team.
  • Test and validate new designs features and delivery models or recommend improving existing service offers that is being taken to market
  • Accountable for the service design deliverables of the solution and interfacing with the offer development, RandD and delivery organisation and partners to ensure supportability.
  • Lead the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service and costing stakeholders.
  • Lead the service design of solutions for the client that will be commercially competitive whilst mitigating risk.
  • Map the client's requirements against proposed set of service elements and architectures and lead the end-to-end solution development (Cloud Services, Technology Architectures, SIAM, SLA, ITSM leading practices).
  • Develop and execute a consulting approach that results in a consolidated statement of requirements, scope, transition documents and costing based need for change, 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).
  • Support the sales teams in presenting an architecture solution to clients with a focus on cost savings or uncovering other client growth opportunities using excellent ability to discover and analyze the client's current architecture, platforms and operating models
  • Share 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
  • Coach, mentor, lead and act as advisor and decision maker in service design situations
  • Provide expertise and support the sales teams to have a commercial model discussion with the client
  • Identify all service costs and populating cost models accurately to ensure a full visibility of costs related to the delivery of the service over the contract term
  • Design and get sign-off from relevant stakeholders on the solution design that will form part of the commercial model
  • Accountable for vendor management depending on the service offers and ensures that the transition to service delivery teams are well co-ordinated to ensure a smooth transition

    • Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

  • Deep knowledge of Managed Services service and delivery models, including cloud, global and distributed delivery models
  • Comfortable working with costing models in partnership with sales and finance stakeholders
  • Sound proficiency in Application and Cloud/Infrastructure Managed Services
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate potential improvements and value of our solutions to all levels of stakeholders; especially C-suite decision makers
  • Proven ability to work within a team, contributing to the success of the team while making a personal contribution; especially in a matrixed organisation
  • Strong point of view on emerging trends in technology, Managed Services Integration, Application Development – DevSecOps, Cloud Native Service Applications, Microsoft Development platforms and Open-Source Software, Cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP, Data Analytics, Containers, RPA, IoT and Intelligent Automation
  • Demonstrated analytical skills and ability to discover and analyze all input and data
  • Deep solution planning and deal shaping expertise, with the ability to create compelling value propositions as part of the solution design

    • Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

  • Tertiary level – bachelor's; or post-graduate degree with experience in a consulting capacity
  • Certification and working knowledge of ITIL, Service Management and Integration, Automation Artificial Intelligence and Analytics
  • Scaled Agile certification or equivalent
  • Desirable: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Training, MS Azure Fundamentals Training, or the latest equivalent are also desirable

    • Required Experience:

  • Excellent track record of designing managed services solutions to large enterprise accounts
  • Extended proof of structuring large, multi-year profitable contracts
  • Extended experience working in an environment with global delivery and in multiple geographies and industries

    • Skills Summary

    Customer Experience (CX), Deliverables Management, Offer Development, Service Solutions, Solution Planning, Solutions Development

    What will make you a good fit for the role?

    Workplace type:

    On-site Working

    Equal Opportunity Employer

    NTT 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. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, veteran status, or other protected category

    Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.

    A career at NTT means:

  • Being part of a global pioneer – where you gain exposure to our Fortune 500 clients and world-leading global technology partners and work with a network of over 40,000 smart and diverse colleagues across 57 countries, delivering services in over 200 countries.
  • Being at the forefront of cutting-edge technology – backed with a 150-year heritage of using technology for good. With 40% of the world's internet traffic running on our network and where Emoji were first invented, you can be proud of the group's many new 'firsts'.
  • Making a difference – by doing meaningful work that helps to shape the future for our clients, and across industries and communities around the world.
  • Being your best self – in a progressive 'Connected Working' environment that promotes flexibility, connection and wellbeing. Where diversity and different perspectives are embraced to ensure equal opportunities for all.
  • Having ongoing opportunities to own and develop your career – with a personal and professional development plan and access to the broadest learning offerings in the industry.
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