Cross Technology Technical Architect

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**Your day at NTT DATA**

This role takes responsibility for the successful overall technical design and build of the custom elements of the solution to meet a client’s business requirements.

**What you'll be doing**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Guide successful implementation and execution of system solutions.
- Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
- Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
- Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current infrastructure, architecture, system capabilities and business challenges.
- Ensure technical solutions accomplish the client’s objectives.
- Work with Solutions Architects (SAs) to produce a technical specification for the solution’s custom development and systems integration requirements.
- Develop the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
- Lead the scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses and assist with the decision to pursue or abort a deal.
- Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which require appropriation of appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.

**Knowledge and Attributes**:

- Demonstrate seasoned product knowledge integrated with seasoned technology understanding
- Seasoned understanding of the vendor’s products, business and technology positioning
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with the ability to establish and create excellent client relationships with their technical expertise.
- Ability to develop and leverage their seasoned knowledge of reference architectures.
- Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
- Seasoned knowledge in core frameworks used.
- Seasoned knowledge of the problem domain that their systems are to provide solutions for
- Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0

**Academic Qualifications and Certifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or information systems or a related field.
- Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
- Relevant vendor and industry certifications, for example, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle.
- Software and programming languages, for example, C++.
- SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.

**Required Experience**:

- Seasoned track record as a developer and architect of new systems/solutions.
- Seasoned work experience working as a systems administrator or network engineer.
- Seasoned client engagement and development consulting experience.
- Seasoned experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.
- Seasoned experience in a variety of architectures for specific domain or specialization.
- Seasoned experienced designer and development know-how.
- Seasoned project management experience ensuring timeous delivery of client solutions.
- Experience presenting technical solutions to non-technical audiences.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.

**Workplace type**:
On-site Working

**About NTT DATA**

**Equal Opportunity Employer