Solutions Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - Cortez Executive Search (Pty) Ltd

Cortez Executive Search (Pty) Ltd
Cortez Executive Search (Pty) Ltd
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Johannesburg, South Africa

2 weeks ago

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Description

Pre-Sales, Sales and Customer interface

  • Attend and participate in internal and external meetings relevant to the presales cycle.
  • Responsible for solution feasibility, qualification and articulation.
  • Determination of internal and external technology/technical, pricing and vendor requirements for Solutions.
  • Production and provision of highlevel architectural design and execution of solutions for complex customer requirements.
  • Provide technical and solutions support and advice for Sales Team, and assist in evaluating opportunities, based on technical requirements and alignment with business capabilities.
  • Ensure collaboration with vendors, customers and partners to understand latest offerings.
  • Internal engagements with Sales teams.
  • External engagements with Customers.

Technical interface

  • Consult with the Technical Teams to assist in the development of solutions (designs equipment/hardware configurations, etc.) to meet company requirements and customer needs.
  • Ensuring compliance with the Company standards, specifications, policies and protocols for all customer solution requirements.
  • Owning the process and following correct approval protocol from Supervisor(s) and Director(s).
  • Technical oversight of the development and delivery of the Solution over the project lifecycle.
  • Analysis of key performance metrics and indicators for network infrastructure to ensure service availability.
  • Analysis of infrastructure resource utilisation, trending and capacity planning.
  • As required, create and update documentation for all relevant procedures, solutions and architectures.
  • Internal engagements with Technical teams.
  • External engagements with Technology vendors

Operations interface

  • Production and provision of complete Solutions Delivery and Support packs in line with Operations (delivery and support) requirements.
  • Solutions review post implementation and customer handover of the Solution to the customer (designed versus asbuilt)
  • Internal engagements with Delivery and Support teams.
  • External engagements with customers.

Procurement and Vendor interface

  • Product Development, ensuring product positioning is achieved, delivering key benefits, targets and deliverables.
  • Definition/Provision of Vendor technology requirements for selected Vendors (preferred/identified)
  • Assessment of solutions proposals and quotes received from Technology Vendors.
  • Internal engagements with Procurement team.
  • External engagements with Technology Vendors.

Skills and experience Essential:


  • Technical knowledge relating specifically to RF systems, communication systems and antennas.
  • Solution architecting skills.
  • Possess good fault finding and analytical skills.
  • Possess good administrative and document writing skills.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Liaising with internal and external customers on user requirements.
  • Experience with the latest next generation wireless technologies advantageous (4G/5G, LTE, IoT, LoRaWAN, Sigfox, Zigbee, etc)
  • Primary Routing and Switching with Secondary Radio Frequency experience will be beneficial
  • Radio Frequency experience (DMR, TETRA, Wireless WAN/LAN i.e. Microwave in PTP and PTMP, Wi-Fi etc. environments)
  • Experience with industry standard planning tools (i.e. Pathloss, LINKPlanner, VisualRF, ZonePlanner etc.)
  • Advanced networking literacy (N+, Cisco & CCNA)
  • Networking equipment (Cisco, Aruba, HP, Mikrotik etc.)
  • Strong IP routing, subnetting and switching expertise and VPNs, Firewalls and Virtual environments.
  • Troubleshooting, finding, and tracing of networking.

Minimum Requirements:


  • Matric
  • National Diploma or BTech Degree (preferred in Telecommunications and/or Information Technology).
  • Minimum 3 years experience in Telecommunications and/or Information Technology.
  • Qualification preferred education and experience.
  • Strong IP routing, subnetting and switching expertise in an RF environment
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