Client Architect

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The Client Architect is a seasoned professional who is responsible for specifying and designing solutions utilizing their technical expertise across one or more technology domains, based on client requirements and client environments. The individual in this position takes responsibility for the successful overall technical design and build of the custom elements of the solution to meet a client’s business requirements. The Client Architect is responsible for designing, and may be required to implement cloud-based solutions that meet client’s business and technical requirements. This position shall also supports sales teams by providing expertise in cloud computing technologies and architectures ensuring the effective design, deployment and operation of our cloud-based systems to meet client needs.

**Working at NTT**

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
- Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and ensure technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives
- Design and architect cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Provide pre-sales technical support and expertise in analysing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current collaboration capabilities.
- Design integration solutions to enable seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments.
- Define and enforce security best practices and compliance standards for cloud-based systems.
- Develop and maintain cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
- Provide guidance and support to development teams to ensure adherence to cloud architecture standards and best practices.
- Develop or produce the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
- Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses.
- Assist with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution.
- Responsible for influencing and guiding members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals.
- Manage client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.
- On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and project managers, to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.
- Specifically relating to opportunity pursuit the Cloud Technical Architect will:

- Evaluate each opportunity for alignment with NTT capabilities and business policy
- Prepare the executive summary that outlines all of the information gathered from the client in regards to their needs, as understood
- Document the proposed technology solution
- Document the statement of work along with all labour requirements
- Work with the relevant internal stakeholders to prepare the pricing format that will be supplied to the customer.
- Perform the actual solution design and prepare a parts list outlining equipment to be provided.
- Develop and manage a proof-of-concept as such may be required
- Engage all technical resources required for an accurate solution design
- Prepare a network diagram outlining the proposed solution
- Document all deliverables and what constitutes a successful completion.
- Review the final parts list as supplied and submit all information to the applicable bid team for final assembly
- Verify the proposal’s accuracy and sign off on the final documents to be presented to the client
- Assist during the final presentation to the client as appropriate
- Guide successful implementation and execution of system solutions.
- Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for small-scale