Sr Solutions Architect - Presales/Bid Management - Managed IT Services/Infrastructue

Role Summary:

- Candidate should be able to size and price IT infrastructure required based on client requirements.

- Should be able to independently present the entire solution to clients and evolve consensus to execute.

- Should be able to implement the solution using own skills supported by team and vendors.

- The Senior Solutions Architect will work closely with Practice sales team – leading the solution for bids and during bid defence.

- He will work closely with Delivery teams during implementation.

Key Technical Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will possess more than a passing interest and considerable knowledge in most of these technologies. He should be able to speak on any of them.

- Various processor architectures: X86-64, Power, Sparc, Itanium.

- Various storage architectures: RAID controllers, SAN, JBOD, Filesystems, RAID types, SSDs, converged adapters

- Modern Server platforms and their features

- Modern tools for managing IT estates; their features and capabilities

- Various Operating systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX.

- Virtualization and separation technologies: VMware, Hyper-V, .Net, Unix containers, LPARs.

- Other Technologies: Compression and deduplication (inline and offline for storage and backups, inline for web pages).

- Networking standards: Ethernet, FC, Infiniband, FCOE, iSCSI, RDMA, FR, ATM.

- Relational Databases and derived technologies: Clustering, Replication, OLTP vs OLAP, BI.

Key Responsibilities:

- Solutioning : Prepare a complete IT solution in response to an RFP. Solution should include technical write-up, diagrams, BOM and prices.

- Bid Defense : Present and defend own solution prepared against RFP in Bid defense meetings with clients. Evolve IT design in response to client requirements.

- Documentation : Review, critique and improve detailed documentation for an IT solution to be implemented prepared by others in the team.

- IT Infrastructure Studies : Carry out IT infrastructure studies for clients to : Identify outsourcing opportunities; Identify Opportunities for improving efficiency of IT infrastructure and technical advancement.

- Team building : Train, motivate, communicate and engage with team and help the team learn, grow and deliver to their peak capability