17 Oct
Leading
Johannesburg
- Lead the technical / architecture projects and translating into digital strategy outcome
- Ability to produce custom development and systems integration requirements to engage clients and prospects
- Identify technical solutions that meet business objectives and use the most cost-effective solutions to meet business requirements
- Support the internal digital teams including Customer Experience, E-Commerce, Digital solutions to digital design
- Act as a subject matter expert on the impact of digital forces on business processes and to establish deep thought leadership in front of clients and within the organization
- Architect new solutions for digital transformations by building frameworks/POC's with emerging technologies
- Create and deliver technical demonstrations/presentations to support the sales cycle
- Perform technical discovery with customer prospects and quickly architect/build roadmaps/architecture documents for proposed solutions
- Design and Run Digital transformation workshops
- Able to respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
- Responsible for representing the Company to customers and at field events such as webinars, luncheons, conferences, seminars, etc.
- Support Marketing with developer marketing and evangelism activities, including writing blogs, participating in demo-driven webinars, and speaking at industry events
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE and KNOWLEDGE:
- BSc in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related business degree.
- Pre-sales experience of at least 6 years
- Understanding of the Application Lifecycle phases (any industry/ sector)
- 5+ years Presales experience with Cloud.
- 10+ years of Professional Services experience with major System Integrators
- Preferred:
Public Cloud certification e.g. AWS Certification as a Solution Architect Associate/Professional
- Expert level knowledge and working experience of AWS/Azure/Google products and services
- Significant working knowledge or hands-on experience of application development using Java or .NET or Open-source frameworks
- Experience for building / proposing complex service offers to meeting customer requirements
- Proven hands-on cloud migration solution design / delivery experience
- Demonstrate capability to design cost effective high available systems on public / hybrid cloud and with environment estimation tools
- Client interfacing, relationship building, and consulting skills required
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to lead as well as work within a cross functional team
- Demonstrable experience in consulting & consultative selling
- Relationship building
- Strategic planning and thinking
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to articulate value proposition of solutions to various executives and stakeholders
- Must be willing to travel sometimes on very short notice
If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks after closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
▶️ Pre-Sales Solutions Architect
🖊️ Leading
📍 Johannesburg