Solution Architect

**What success looks like in this role**:
**What success looks like in this role**:
The DWS Solution Manager for Service Desk will help drive the evolution of our existing Service Desk offerings, taking advantage of emerging technologies such as Generative AI, machine learning, automation, analytics, augmented reality, remote sensing and resolution tools, and more to produce an innovative, state-of-the-art offering, so that Unisys continues to drive both revenue and margin from these services. The ‘Service Desk’ goes beyond traditional IT help desk, to be the single point of contact for any information that an employee needs to do their job, providing help with HR, travel, finance, IT and other business processes.

**Key Responsibilities**:
The Service Desk Solution Manager works with a team of Solution Managers and Solution Architects in the Solution Management organization within our Digital Workplace Solutions business unit. As such, this role is responsible to create durable and commercially viable solutions using innovative technology, process improvements, and reseller partner opportunities that will enable Unisys to both expand its Service Desk business and improve the efficiency of those services.

The Service Desk Solution Architect will contribute to the ideation, technology architecture, collateral development, creation of Service Descriptions, delivery partner engagement, go to market strategy, preparation of cost and price models, sales enablement, pipeline curation, and continuous improvement of Unisys Service Desk offerings. This role creates artifacts that are used by stakeholders within other Unisys organizations to market, sell, solution, price, and deliver Service Desk services. This can include: marketing messaging, whitepapers, sales battlecards, client-facing documentation, sales training, demo capabilities, service descriptions, solutioning guides, costing guides, cost models, RACIs, and Statements of Work. This role:

- Participate in all elements of the Portfolio Lifecycle Management process,
- Evaluate business _requirements _to come up with the technical solution to solve business problems,
- Design end-to-end technology solutions for contact centers and remote support platforms, including omnichannel cloud contact center and AI-driven support tools,
- Define integration strategies between service desk support systems such as ITSM, CRM, ticketing systems, workforce management, and analytics platforms,
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and compliance requirements,
- Develop high level design, low level design, data flow diagrams, support models, user manuals, API documentation, guides, KBs, product manuals, etc. ,
- Evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., CCaaS, UCaaS, AI/ML, RPA) for applicability to contact center use cases,
- Develop proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and prototypes to validate architectural decisions and demonstrate feasibility,
- Define and oversee solution testing strategies, including functional, performance, and failover testing,
- Coordinate and oversee pilot deployments to validate solutions meet their goals.
- Work closely with developers, infrastructure teams, and delivery operations to ensure successful solution hand off into production,
- Work with technical teams to put together technical reference architectures and demos,
- Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders to assess and select appropriate platforms and tools,
- Identify potential security risks in the solutions proposed and develop road-map to mitigate them,
- Consider how Service Desk evolution aligns with the overall DWS strategy and partner ecosystem,
- Contribute to strategic solution business planning, service excellence improvement, and innovation, whilst ensuring governance maturity,
- Assist in the research, ideation, and creation of vision, strategy, and roadmap for the offering, collecting input from external analysts, delivery partners, sales, and existing Unisys clients,
- Analyze feasibility to augment existing Service Desk services by leveraging automation and AI in order to improve efficiency,
- Assist with managing solution and roadmap plan schedules to meet launch commitments,
- Work with delivery to determine licensing, transition, and labor costs for the purposes of developing a repeatable cost model and associated statement of work,
- May present Service Desk technical capabilities and architecture to key clients.

**You will be successful in this role if you have**:
**Skills and Qualifications**:

- University degree and/or 5-10 years of related experience with the delivery of IT support services and solution architecture.
- 5+ years of contact center and remote support technologies design, operations, development, implementation, and support.
- Strong knowledge of platforms such as Genesys, NICE, Five9, Amazon Connect, or similar.
- Strong knowledge of ITSM platforms such as Service Now, BMC Helix, or similar.
- Experience