Job Description
As a Technical Solution Architect (TSA), your primary responsibility with be to move customer workloads to Microsoft Azure.
The TSA is a technical customer facing role that will be accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience.
You will own the Azure technical customer engagement including specific implementation projects and/or Proofs of Concept (POCs).
The ideal candidate should have experience in customer facing roles and had success leading technical and economic value discussions with senior customer executives that drive key decisions and implementation.
The success of this role depends on collaboration with generalists and specialists in the business engagement and delivery teams.
In this role, you would be responsible for:
Interfacing with both the generalists and specialists in the QES sales and delivery teams (including partners, services, and sales team) focused on consumption of the Azure platform in high potential accounts
Executing quick technical feasibility and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Azure (i.e. quick and dirty, comfortable with 80-20 rule)
Building a technical and security architecture in Azure for the selected apps/workloads
Lead compliance assessments with the customer on designed Azure architecture
Selecting a migration approach to lift and shift the workloads to Azure or architecting a greenfield development and/or production platform for new applications
Executing limited POCs, if necessary
Driving the quality of the onboarding plan (with QES team and/or partners)
Reporting to customer as business objectives / business value conditions are met
Ensuring plan execution and Azure consumption targets are met
Documenting and sharing technical best practices / insights with engineering and the architect community
Qualifications
MCSE Server Administration, MCSA, MCTS, University Degree in Computer Science or Math background highly desired, HND
Years of experience: 1-2years
Key Qualifications:
Understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through
Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, where and when needed, to do what’s right for the customer and for the organization (i.e. think through workarounds, evaluate risk of various deployment options, etc.)
Exceptional verbal and written communication
Ability to connect technology with measurable business value
Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer facing situations
Requirements:
2+ years of management and success in consultative / complex sales processes (where necessary, managing various stakeholders (Primary: Technical Decision Makers, Secondary: Business Decision Makers) relationships to get consensus on solution / projects
2+ year’s design and/or implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.)
1+ years’ experience in migrating on premise workloads to the cloud
Technical prowess and passion, especially for Windows Azure,
Modern Application design practices and principles.
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
Capability knowledge:
Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure components:
Software design or development
Systems Operations / Management
Database architecture
Virtualization
IP Networking
Storage
IT Security
Competencies:
Communication, project planning, Network management, Systems Management
Salary Range 60-100k
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Interested and qualified candidates should send their application and CV’s to: career@quanteq.com using the job title as the subject of the mail. Note: Applicants that resides in Abuja are expected to apply or those that can relocate at a short notice without requesting for relocation allowance.
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