We are looking for an accomplished Cloud & Infrastructure Services Presales Solution Architect to lead the solutioning for cloud, hybrid infrastructure, data center transformation and managed services opportunities.
This is a hands-on solutioning role. The architect must be capable of independently developing cloud and data center solutions, architectures, bills of material, resource-loading models, effort estimates, pricing inputs, transformation roadmaps, operating models and customer proposals.
Key Responsibilities
1. Presales and Opportunity Solutioning
- Lead technical solutioning for Cloud and Infrastructure Services opportunities across RFIs, RFPs, proactive pursuits, renewals, expansions and transformation programs.
- Analyze customer business goals, technical requirements, existing infrastructure landscape, service levels, operations challenges and contractual requirements.
- Develop compelling solution strategies, win themes, transformation hypotheses, value propositions and solution differentiators.
- Own the technical response from initial opportunity qualification through proposal submission, customer presentation and SOW preparation.
2. Cloud Transformation Solutioning
- Architect solutions across public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
- Design cloud landing zones covering account or subscription structure, identity, network connectivity, security, governance, monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery and cost management.
- Develop cloud adoption, migration, consolidation and modernization roadmaps.
- Develop migration factories, wave plans, effort models, migration schedules, cutover approaches, testing strategies and hypercare models.
- Use native AWS and Azure pricing tools to create infrastructure configurations, consumption estimates and commercial inputs.
3. Data Center and Hybrid Infrastructure Solutioning
- Design transformation and managed services solutions for enterprise data center and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Design data center migration, consolidation, exit and cloud-adoption solutions.
- Incorporate high availability, DR, backup, security, performance and regulatory requirements into the solution architecture.
4. Managed Services Solutioning
- Design end-to-end managed services solutions for cloud, data center and hybrid infrastructure operations.
- Define service delivery models covering shared, dedicated, offshore, nearshore and onsite constructs.
- Design automation-led operating models using AIOps, event correlation, orchestration, self-healing, infrastructure as code and automated remediation.
- Develop productivity and optimization roadmaps with clearly defined and supportable benefits.
5. Commercial and Deal Support
- Work with finance and commercial teams to develop competitive and financially viable pricing models.
- Build bottom-up effort estimates for transformation projects and managed services.
- Support deal-shaping decisions including scope optimization, delivery location, resource mix, automation benefits and risk provisions.
- Identify solution and commercial risks and recommend appropriate mitigations.
- Participate in internal deal reviews, governance checkpoints and approval processes.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 15 years of overall experience in IT infra, cloud and related services.
- Strong experience in Cloud & Infra Services presales and solution architecture.
- Demonstrable experience designing both:
- Transformation solutions, such as cloud adoption, migrations, modernization, data center exits, consolidation and technology refresh.
- Managed services solutions, including operating models, staffing, transition, SLAs, automation and service improvement.
- Strong experience with Azure, AWS, hybrid cloud & enterprise DC technologies.
- Proven ability to independently build technical solutions, architectures, bills of material, resource-loading models and pricing inputs.
- Experience working with globally distributed sales, delivery, practice, finance, commercial and partner teams.
- Prior infrastructure implementation or operations experience is desirable
Educational Qualifications
- BE in Comp Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.
Preferred Certifications
One or more of the following would be desirable:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, VMware certification, ITIL certification
Behavioral Competencies
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
- Strong commercial awareness
- Ability to work independently and take end-to-end ownership
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills
- Attention to detail with focus on solution quality and commercial protection
