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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Solutions Architect
Location: Lagos
Department: Technical
Reporting Line: Technical Sales Manager
Job Type: Permanent
Slot: 2 Openings
Responsibilities
- Contribute proactively to new service development.
- Ensure quality, up-to-date documentation exists for all service arrangements
- Provide technical and business consultative leadership throughout the technical life cycle of technical solutions.
- Manage and develop strategic partnerships with third party suppliers and other internal stakeholders for Cloud Aggregators or Managed Service Providers.
- Coordinate with the sales team in formulating and building up proposal knowledge, including making technical demos and presentations to Main One customers.
- Demonstrate ability, determination and tenacity to move major initiatives forward and drive focus while consistently thinking of the bottom-line impact of the efforts
- Will be involved from pre-sales solution formulation through system deployment; including bid preparation and customer interface resulting in solutions architecture proposals.
- The Solutions Architect will develop and articulate solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customer's organisation.
- Assist in the translation of customer needs/technical requirements to appropriate solutions by liaising with customers to understand, anticipate and meet their specific needs.
- Design service solutions for Managed Service customers in line with ITIL and/or industry best practice
- Proven business development experience and familiarity with cloud services markets
- Manage multi-faceted projects with diverse stakeholders across different continents. A track record of successful project management is important.
- Familiarity with international, regional and local provider markets.
Qualifications, Skills & Competencies
Skills & Qualification Required:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Information Communication Technology, Engineering or Computer Science Cisco CCNA/CCDA/CCIP/CCNP/CCDP/CWNA
- PMI, Prince 2 or other industry equivalent
- Certifications in Cloud Technologies, SDN is considered a plus for this
- At least three (2) years of experience in proposal development, designing architecture, and implementing provider solutions.
- At least five (3) years industry experience.
Competencies:
- Creative and innovative approach.
- Experience in telecom architecture.
- Proactive with a positive 'can do' approach.
- Experience with Cisco equipment essential.
- Experience in WLAN technologies (Controllers, WAPs, and 802.11 fundamentals)
- Familiarity with 802.11g/n/ac/ax standards.
- Sound commercial business understanding and risk aware.
- Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills.
- Experience relating business requirements to system and infrastructure components and designing the bill of materials for a project.
- Team player / Ability to work independently / Ability to work with little supervision
- Sound commercial business understanding and risk aware
- In-depth Knowledge of Radio/Microwave and terrestrial transmission systems.
- Experience in designing and deploying standardised VOIP technologies; SIP and H.323.
- Experience relating business requirements to system and infrastructure components and designing the bill of materials for a project.
- Set up and maintain a best practice library of company proposals and architectural designs proposed to customers with success and conversion rate indicators.
- In-depth level knowledge of networking technologies including but not limited to: TCP/IP (e.g. interpreting a packet trace file), WAN technologies, VPN(Layer 2 & 3), QoS, firewalls, routers, switches, DNS, Metro Ethernet, SDH, EoSDH, DWDM, VOIP and Data Centre Designs.
Demand on the Job:
- Problem solving.
- Written and verbal communications
- Prioritising workload of self and others
- Contract negotiation and influencing skills.
- Relationship Management and Analytical Skills.
- Background in Telecom and Managed Services Environment.
- Strong background in solution design with focus on IP/MPLS/IPLC/VOIP/Metro Ethernet/Data Centre Collocation/Cloud technologies/Managed Services.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online