Platform Architect

NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today’s ‘iNTTerconnected’ world, connections matter more now than ever. By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world’s most significant technological, business and societal challenges.

With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.

**Want to be a part of our team?**

Provides technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, installation, and maintenance of company products.

**Working at NTT**

Services Architects are pre-sales persona working with clients in a value co-creation process and internal sales and delivery teams resulting in the design and demo Managed Services solutions across all technology domains. Key focus areas are Client Experience, Service Management, DevSecOps process/tools, and secure data API integration and hybrid delivery modeling. Designs often involve consulting and customized multi-product/multi-vendor solution elements with hardware, software, and cloud services.

They are responsible for the development of competitive, innovative, secure, multi-year, viable Managed Services solutions and associated costing inputs to commercial models.

They manage a virtual team of domain experts to orchestrate the development of secure, multiple-year, services solutions.

You will have the opportunity to design solutions with some of the most innovative global organizations, technologies; accelerating the digital transformation business objectives and outcomes.

**Responsibilities**:

- Services Architecture Design:_
- Design complex managed service solutions to meet client requirements by integrating technology and service design across multiple domains
- Leads the design of the Managed Service offering, interfacing with the platform delivery team.
- Test and validate new designs features and delivery models or recommend improving existing service offers that is being taken to market
- Responsible for the service design deliverables of the solution and interfacing with the offer development, R&D, and delivery organization and partners to ensure supportability.
- Lead the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service, and costing stakeholders.
- Lead the service design of solutions for the client that will be commercially competitive whilst mitigating risk.
- Map the client's requirements against the proposed set of service elements and architectures and lead the end-to-end solution development (Cloud Services, Technology Architectures, SIAM, SLA, ITSM leading practices).
- Develop and execute 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).
- Pre-sales & influence client outcome:_
- Support the sales teams in presenting an architecture solution to clients with a focus on cost savings or uncovering other client growth opportunities. This will require an ability to discover and analyze the client’s current architecture, platforms, and operating models
- Sales and delivery team’s collaboration:_
- Share client outcomes and market conditions with other stakeholders so that the global offering leads, and Managed Services community can evolve strategies and develop innovative solutions for the future
- Coach, mentor, lead, and act as advisor and decision-maker in service design situations
- Commercial design:_
- Support the sales teams to have a commercial model discussion with the client
- Identify all service costs and populate cost models accurately to ensure full visibility of costs related to the delivery of the service over the contract term
- Create and get sign-off from relevant stakeholders on the solution design that will form part of the commercial model
- Vendor management:_
- Responsible for vendor management depending on the service offers and ensures that the transition to service delivery teams are well coordinated to ensure a smooth transition

**Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes Required**
- Detailed knowledge of Managed Services service and delivery models, including cloud, global, and distributed delivery models
- Comfortable working with costing models in partnership with sales and finance stakeholders
- Proficiency in Application and Cloud/Infrastructure Managed Services
- Ability to communicate potentially improvements and value of our solutions to all levels of stakeholders; especially C-suite dec