Solution Architect

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Description
Provide pre-sales technical support to clients and the sales, bid and commercial teams. Review client needs and design end-to-end optimized technical and commercial solutions. Ensure technical, capacity and inventory feasibility, to meet service level agreements, timescales and budget

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a related field

Minimum Experience and Skills

  • Minimum of 8 years technical experience in the telecom industry with at least 5 years in a solutions architect or similar role
  • Expert knowledge in service delivery, sales support, network infrastructure and operations support or similar fields
  • Intermediate knowledge of Transmission (DWDM, OTN, SDH), IP (Peering, IP Transit, Layer 2/3 services), Fibre, Colocation and Subsea networks
  • Expert knowledge and experience in GIS systems
  • Experience with product and technology development cycle, including technical product development and fulfillment, assurance and billing procedures
  • Expert capability in developing solution options in order to identify all impacts and costs related to the recommended solution
  • Effective and excellent written and verbal communication skills evidenced by previous work history and accomplishments
  • Expert in Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Excellent communications and presentation skills, including ability to summarize, drive clarity and concisely share key project information to all levels of the organization
  • Demonstrate ability to manage multiple priorities, set direction and solve problems in a fast-paced environment
  • Willing to work outside of normal office hours (to assist clients)


Responsibilities
  • Provide technical pre-sales support for the sales and provisioning processes
  • Design technical solutions, including creating internal and client facing technical documentation
  • Identify solution concerns, issues, contractual challenges and mitigate appropriately
  • Develop technical product descriptions, architectures and functionality documentation
  • Develop, implement and operationalise standards and processes for solution planning and design
  • Support with new product development
  • Partner with internal teams to create detailed custom solutions focusing on technical capability, fulfillment, assurance and billing
  • Improve efficiency of solution development
  • Assist with creation of ad hoc reports as needed
  • Assist to produce technical drawings and documentation
  • Assist to audit and maintain database records and information
  • Actively use and ensure data integrity on OSS/BSS systems


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