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Reference Number:
080731-01
Job Description:
Job Title: Principal IT Architect and Consultant
Location: New Jersey
BASIC PURPOSE
- Assist Sales Team in the pre sales process for various opportunities as a Technology SME (Subject Matter Expert).
- Responsible for architecture and design of IT solutions to address client priorities and business needs.
- Apply your GDM (Global Delivery Model) experience with off-shore and domestic development teams to leverage organization's capabilities.
- Manage client technology expectations and work with onsite & remote technology and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation from a technology perspective.
- Assist in establishing and sustaining partnerships/alliances with technology vendors.
Experience Level:
5+ Years
Requirements:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Skills:
1. IT Solutions and consulting within a off-shore & domestic GDM (Global Development Modeling) team environment.
2. Solution Architecture
3. Open Systems Technology
- Provide solutions/technology/product consulting, system deployment, and sales support in a delivery leadership role.
- Understand client specific requirements and create solutions.
- Recommend/defend technology strategy for engagements along with Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Handle Client interactions independently.
- Evaluate solution options and make recommendations to clients.
- Prepare in-depth and high-level technology and product presentations, white papers and case studies for field distribution and presentation to clients.
- Key contributor to customer RFI, RFP and RFQ initiatives.
- Interact with CXO level and make presentations.
- Review plans, architecture and strategies.
- Lend a high-touch consultative approach to the selling process.
- Contribute to business and technology vision and direction by influencing strategies and monitoring execution of major technology endeavors.
- Demonstrate skills as a SME and convince client regarding the validity and approach of the solution.
- Involvement in taking a project through envisioning and design.
- Manage and supervise the delivery of tech engagements and be the first point of contact for any client escalation.
- Contribute in creation of go-to market strategy for the new solutions/offerings.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in IT Engineering;
- 10 to 15 years of experience in delivering complex ADM (Application Delivery Model) in a GDM environment.
- Strong Application Development Background.
- Should have done Application Architecture Definition, Tech Strategy consulting assignments.
- Well versed is standard methodologies, frameworks, SDLC and other quality processes.
- Experience in solution definition, effort estimation, proposal pricing, proposal preparation and client presentation.
- Ability to engage with CXO level.
- Strong business communication (oral and written) and presentation skills.
- Should have exposure to Product Evaluation/Comparison.
- Practitioner of Enterprise Architecture models and patterns.
- Ability to analyze relative strengths of various standards, technologies.
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Excellent understanding and exposure to areas in Open Systems: .Net, J2EE, EAI/SOA, BPM, Portals.
- Good Understanding of tools, technology trends in the above mention space.
- Possess excellent communication, listening and presentation skills, extremely enthusiastic, motivated, entrepreneurial and aggressive, strong negotiation skills, closing skills, diligent follow-up skills, flexibility, willingness to work in an unstructured environment, openness, less control, ability to work within a culturally diverse environment.
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