Senior Solution Architect - Infrastructure Services

MindGen Solutions is a recruitment firm and specializes in hiring managerial and leadership talents across technologies and domains.

We have an opportunity for a Senior Solution Architect - Infrastructure services for one of our MNC client, which provides IT Services and is one of the world's largest consulting, outsourcing and professional services company.

Job Description:

Must have performed roles in infrastructure management and in IM Presales, design /architect infrastructure solutions for various business applications and industry verticals.

Experience in architecting solutions, responding to RFPs for infrastructure management Outsourcing Services

Responsibilities include:

Infrastructure Outsourcing pursuits

- Provide IM pre-sales support to business requirements

- Conducting requirement workshops to capture customer requirements and evaluation / analysis of their data

- Apply domain expertise and innovative ideas to architect/design solutions, evaluate multiple options to meet client's business requirements.

- Respond to RFI / RFP's, prepare solution documentation and presentations

- Design detailed delivery model for the run services

- Build & propose the Infrastructure Transformation Plan

- Build the costing details

- Present the solution to the customer during workshops, oral sessions

- Manage & mitigate the risks associated with the proposed solution

Business Development:

- Manages presales & solutioning activities for the service offering

- Build and maintain costing models

- Create wining proposals by closely working with Bid Managers, onsite sales teams, internal delivery organizations, 3rd party vendors

- Build (and maintain repository) for costing models, proposals, and business development documents

- Mentor and guide more junior Solution Architect resources

- With Channel development team, develop and maintain vendor relationships within the product

Primary Skills:

In-depth domain expertise in any of the following IM streams:

- Data centre operations (design, build and operate)

- Network and Security

- Virtualization / Cloud & transformation technologies

- Service Desk

- Desktop life cycle management & VDI

- Proven track record of having done customer facing solution defense.

- Capable to independently think, articulate and comprehend customer pain points in technology and commercial areas for providing solutions.

- Team player and self motivated individual