Technical Solutions Architect Job Description
Technical solutions architect
provides pre-sales expertise on advanced network infrastructure, security, WLAN and WAN/SD-WAN solutions to our clients.
Technical Solutions Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Providing Technical Expertise for lighthouse deals (helping account teams set strategy and assisting with deal/application specific resource customization / scaling requirements)
Own the technical delivery of a working solution from design to working with partner engineering teams during integration, testing, implementation and launch
Responsible for delivering architecture material such as Conceptual Architecture, Logical Architecture, Physical Architecture, Security Architecture
Work closely with Application vendors such as AbInitio, IBM, Hortonworks to carry out POC related activities
Develop compelling PoC’s for data solutions using emerging technologies for real-time and big data ingestion and processing
Key contributor on complex projects/initiatives
Respective Virtualization services, design standard technology solutions to address business or technology gaps, and support advancement of emerging technology
Maintaining technology standards definition, roadmap including full life-cycle of solution, compliance measurement, and improvement initiatives
Certifying standalone solution components, and participating with standard patterns certification as required
Implementing a complimentary continuous improvement process to periodically evaluate and adjust design standards as required
Technical Solutions Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Technical Solutions Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCIE, CCNP, MEF, PMP, TOGAF, PBA, CBAP, ITIL, CCNA, SAN
Education for Technical Solutions Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the technical solutions architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Engineering, Business, Education, Information Technology, Technology, Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems
Skills for Technical Solutions Architect
Desired skills for technical solutions architect include:
Open data standards and metadata guidelines
Schemas
Automation
Networking
TCP/IP
SD-WAN
Demonstration scenarios
Product line specifications
Cybersecurity concepts
Firewalling
Desired experience for technical solutions architect includes:
Extensive experience building scalable, fault tolerant distributed transaction systems
Experience in payment products and platform capabilities
Should be able to interact with the users and counterparts based in China
Creative thinker willing to challenge the status quo to bring a better solution to market
Strong technical leadership quality
Focus on providing end to end payment solutions
Technical Solutions Architect Examples
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Technical Solutions Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a technical solutions architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for technical solutions architect
- Provide critical subject matter expert expertise around the Cisco Cloud Automation Portfolio, particularly Cisco CloudCenter, and related platforms both in a pre-sales and a billable manner
- Advancing Innovation agenda by identifying emerging technologies and applicable opportunities within a technology domain
- Supporting Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives by documenting business case and actively participating in evaluation
- Providing Portfolio/Project Management support
- Soliciting feedback on standard solution building block operational achievement of design requirements and update as necessary
- Owning cost model for respective technology IT services or applicable technology components of IT services to ensure Next Gen solution outcomes achieve cost, quality, flexibility, and integration requirements
- Interact with internal departments to find the feasibility and cost for other access types, such as requesting third party quotes, as required
- Provide phone-based pre-sales technical advisory services for simple solutions using standard products for Enterprise Small Business and Commercial Insides Sales channels
- Translate customer requirements into technical design documentation based on solution specifications
- Assist Solutions Architects in obtaining required information for RFP process, as requested
Qualifications for technical solutions architect
- Experience of around 10 - 15 yrs bringing together the technical, functional and operational aspects of a solution to achieve business objectives
- Over 7 yrs of strong coding and programming experience with Java EE and hands-on experience in open source framework, be familiar with usage and theory in spring, hibernate, ibatis, struts, JSF, and so on
- 3+ years Business Architect / Solution Design experience - TOGAF desirable
- Dev / Ops & Infrastructure background
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Powershell & Puppet
- 10 + years experience in Information Technology including minimum of 5 years designing complex, integrated solutions
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of technical solutions architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for technical solutions architect
- Complete thorough estimation of Fibre build, using Rogers GIS web-based tool for sites that are not pre-qualified
- Review and guide the technical team’s deliverables to ensure overall quality and compliance with the architecture
- Develop and manage customer technical decision maker level relationships as a “trusted advisor” on NFV & SDN solutions, platforms and technologies
- Gather, define and report solution requirements to product and solution development teams
- Experience with application container based delivery platforms – preferred
- Ability to build technical architecture design & technology collateral
- Supports in developing ROI calculations, customer presentations, COF messaging
- Architect Continuous Integration loops using Industry standard tools such as GIT, Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Sonarcube, BlackDuck, Nexus
- Solutions should ensure code quality with measurable risks and deviation from a known baseline
- Architect Continuous Delivery pipelines using industry standard tools such as GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Cloudformation
Qualifications for technical solutions architect
- Applications and Infrastructure Design, deployment, and quality management skills - knowledge of Techniques, methods and tools for managing requirements, processes, and object versioning
- Ability to command the respect of not only IT peers, but also business management
- General Management/Leadership - ability to formulate and articulate direction in the area of architecture
- Extensive experience interacting with vendors in a Technology outsourced environment
- Excellent client facing skills (in particular ability to clearly articulate the value and rationale of the proposed solution)
- Application development, field deployment and operations experience
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of technical solutions architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for technical solutions architect
- Must demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, very strong presentation skills, effective listening, excellent written and verbal communication skills, concern with quality deliverables, and an appropriate sense of urgency in fulfilling customer and Sales Team requirements
- Uses in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff, partners and customers through product presentations, "chalk talks", informal technology/product discussions, sales presentations and/or product demonstrations
- Provides effective technical presentations on all aspects of our solutions to customers and partners, including conveying the features, functions, benefits, and capabilities of our products, conveying how our products interoperate with 3rd-party products
- Responsible for identifying and translating technical and business requirements through functional analysis into a clear set of architecture and solution design documents that include detailed Visio diagrams and technical briefs that can be used by the sales team to present a formal proposal to customers
- Must Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources, collaborating with Project Managers and Product Managers to develop “proof of concept” or “implementation solution” plans, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization, and integration efforts
- Assists in closing business by winning the "Technical Recommendation to Buy" through presentation of proposed solution, demonstrations, and/or evaluations
- Works with the Sales Team using a consultative approach to identify customer business needs and providing technical input when responding to large RFI and RFPs
- Participate in periodic Sales Funnel Reviews while being responsible to maintain all customers’ technical information updated in Salesforce
- Works within guidelines, technological strategic goals, and other I.T
- Identifies and obtains customer requirements in preparation for the detailed system design
Qualifications for technical solutions architect
- Technical Acumen - Strong domain knowledge in infrastructure architecture
- POS Application and POS hardware security experience
- Deep understanding of POS architecture and deployment variants from fat, thin, hybrid client, terminal to cloud POS
- Experience in POS relevant operating systems like Microsoft Windows 7 POS ready and higher, Linux and mobile Android/iOS/WIN platform experience desirable
- Experience in Client mgmt
- Experience in POS/RFID HW, peripherals and firmware a plus
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of technical solutions architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for technical solutions architect
- Setup OEM devices per customer specification utilizing scripting methods and/or built in manufacturer automation tools
- Produce documentation and technical work instructions required for an operator to utilize the automation tools and procedures developed
- Possesses strong knowledge of 3rd party complementary and competitive hardware and software backup and recovery solutions
- Possesses the ability to independently design mid-range large, complex solutions that require significant interaction with other vendors and/or system integrators
- Documentation set must be sufficient for a Solution Architect to appropriately design and promote the solution
- Presents the proposed solution to Sales Team and customer
- Also responsible for providing informal training support to the Sales Team, if necessary
- Enhances customer relationships by demonstrating understanding of customer value and the customer service attitude
- Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills, very strong presentation skills, effective listening, excellent written and verbal communication skills, concern with quality deliverables, and an appropriate sense of urgency in fulfilling customer and Sales Team requirements
- Demonstrates the ability to overcome normal technical barriers to sales
Qualifications for technical solutions architect
- Participated in full POS or RFID lifecycle development on mid to large projects
- Experience with Java, Enterprise and distributed Java development
- Specific experience in GK Software, Oracle Xstore, LS Retail or retailpro a big plus
- Specific experience in RFID Software desirable
- Experience in Oracle DB, SQL server, Firebird open source DB is a plus
- Experience in architecting and designing Web Services (RESTful API desirable)
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of technical solutions architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for technical solutions architect
- Experience a role a broad span of control which could require a focus on any or all of the product solution elements
- Own the customer user management and direct-to-consumer/ OTT system integrations, working closely with vendors and internal teams
- Support existing and new user management and OTT workflows, including investigation into customer issues
- Respond to requests for technical information from customers, sales and country technical consultants
- Own and manage knowledge sharing within the EMEA TC community
- Manage the technical alliances with HP partners such as Intel, Microsoft, AMD, Citrix, NVidia, and WinMagic at an EMEA level
- Accountable for the management of all ERP related technical activities
- Provide operational and strategic support for the authorisations concepts, ensure that roles of SAP users fits company and auditory requirements and provide support in information security areas for the ERP systems under management of the ER team
- The role will manage the operational relationship with the key service related suppliers of the systems in scope
- Responsible for the continuous operation of the IT services delivered by external providers of technical services
Qualifications for technical solutions architect
- Solid understanding of DevOps methodologies and experience with scripting languages such as Python, Powershell
- Comfortable in using remote technology (TelePresence, WebEx, .) to create, develop and refine Partner/Customer Relationships
- Recognized as a leader in a technology domain
- CBAP or PBA certification preferred
- Technical / industry certifications required in technology discipline
- Ability and willingness to travel extensively (often 65%, or greater), domestically and internationally, often with very short or immediate notice, with flexible work hours, including meeting client dictated performance requirements in uncontrolled environments