Network Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with sales team to participate in and proactively drive the presales process with clients.
• Designs relatively complex network and managed service solutions to meet client requirements by integrating technology and service design across multiple domains.
• Conducts sales presentations, product demonstrations, develops proposal responses, creates network vendor OEM bill of materials.
• Designs the Network Service offering, interfacing with the platform delivery team.
• Conducts network solution and connectivity design reviews to ensure capacity to provide the solution whilst ensuring client requirements are met.
• Responsible for the service design deliverables of the solution, working with internal teams and partners to ensure supportability.
• Supports the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service, and costing stakeholders.
• Provides service, technical and operational design of solutions for the client that will be commercially competitive whilst mitigating risk.
• Maps the client's requirements against the proposed set of service elements and architectures and coordinate the end-to-end solution development (Network Services, Technology Architectures, SIAM, SLA, ITSM leading practices).
• Executes a consulting approach that results in a consolidated statement of requirements, scope, transition documents, and costing based need for change, the role of IT, definition of the AS-IS versus desired state (Future Mode of operation defined), gap analysis, and roadmap, highlighted impacts, consequences, and benefits of the intended transformation (people, process, technology).
• Assists the sales teams in presenting an architecture solution to clients with a focus on