Responsibilities:
- Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.
- Prepare proposals and assist Sales with client presentations.
- Participate in RFI/RFP responses that require new vendor products and help select the vendor product/solution that best aligns with project goals.
- Works with the Commercial Pursuit team to provides inputs to the pricing model.
- Collaborates with Bid governance, operational leadership, and industry partners to build solutions that delivers business value quickly and efficiently while also supporting client goals.
- Documents and communicates risks of the solution including dependencies on external agencies.
- Work with the Services Architect to ensure the solution design can be delivered before pricing and client engagement.
- Evaluate technologies for specific services and products and understand the value from a client standpoint. The individual will facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of solutions for specific sub-process while following the Enterprise, Security and Data guidelines to make sure enterprise integration is considered.
- Research build or buy options and make recommendations to leadership on which direction will provide the most value.
- Create, maintain, and communicate solution architecture documents and design directives with business and IT leaders for buy in and sign-off.
- Document and communicate immediate and long-term technical risks to the product direction including dependencies on external systems.
- Collaborates with other Solutions Architects and maintains documentations for solution architecture patterns that can be leveraged across multiple products and platforms.
- Collects relevant data for benchmarking.
- Participate with teams in activities ranging from strategic planning to operational reviews with a focus on the client needs. Provide input for managing lifecycles and roadmaps of the individual business programs.
- Support innovation efforts and identify technology and solution roadmaps to improve capabilities.
Qualifications:
EDUCATION /CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
- Prior experience of build solutions in the respective domains
- 8+ years of experience in technology architecture and solution design.
- 10+ years of solution development and client experience required.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., Azure).
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Certifications in cloud computing (e.g. Azure Certified Solutions Architect).
- Experience with data analytics and business intelligence tools.
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements (e.g. GDPR; GDCA, etc).
TECHNICAL/SOFT SKILLS
- Excellent communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with clients, leadership and project team members required.
- Working knowledge of hardware, software, AI, RPA tools and methodologies required
- Knowledge and understanding of SDLC, Software Architecture patterns and API programming required.
- Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies required
- Must be a self-starter and have the analytical skills required for the job.
EXPERIENCE
- Experience in Public Accounting industry or a part of large managed services organization.
- Prior experience in a similar role for implementing solutions for global managed services clients leveraging multiple technologies and platforms as required.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies required.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
- Must be a confident leader in influencing the solution strategy with Clients.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
