Customer Solution Architect Job Description
Customer Solution Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Customer Solution Architect Job Description
- Deliver on-site and remote training to partners and customers, provide assistance with the development and maintenance of the training and workshop material itself
- Leverage on deep insight and contacts/relationship with key stakeholders as CTO, CMO, Head of Networks
- Work on the Digital agile team the PFS Architecture team for the particular solution and act as a liaison between the Enterprise Architecture team and the Digital Agile team
- Participate in establishing and documenting Digital architecture standards with other Architects
- Provide technical leadership to the design, development, implementation and testing of digital solutions, often custom developed and integrating new technologies
- Understand technological systems and strategic vision in order to produce integrated end-to-end Digital solution options
- Keep the Enterprise Architecture team up-to-date on the nature of solutions being developed in the Digital agile team
- Educate and ensure developers on the Digital agile team understand and follow technical and functional architectural standards
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architects (Chief Technical, Functional, Security) on the development of application and component conceptual designs, including authoring and presenting relevant sections
- Collaborate with other Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Product Owners, Product Managers, stakeholders, and other teams to ensure the strategic vision of the Digital agile team’s systems is realized
- Experience in an architecture role
- Experience producing business relevant presentations and technical oriented writing is mandatory
- Must be able to clearly articulate complex technical topics verbally in English
- The CSA is able to work well in the CSA Team
- M/B.Sc
- Knowledge and interest on Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Including HW (Compute, Storage Networking), CloudStack (OS, VMware), IP (including SDN)
Customer Solution Architect Job Description
- Participate in cross-project planning and release planning activities
- Provide leadership on user story sequencing that maximizes user story throughput and team productivity
- Coordinate with other Solution Architects on cross-team feature and user story dependencies
- Participate in Digital team’s building and testing of the team’s applications within the sprints
- Coordinate and participate in the development of logical and detailed design deliverables
- Keep up-to-date on cutting edge technology, standards, protocols and tools in areas relevant to the rapidly changing digital environment
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture team to assess digital market technology choices to determine fit, including software
- Troubleshoot and support user acceptance testing, rollout efforts and the team’s systems in each environment
- Provide production support during business hours on-call hours
- Help coordinate and resolve high profile escalations
- Capability to explain complex technical topics/concepts to smaller or bigger audience
- Background in Distributed Systems / IT, Software and Virtualization Technologies
- Experience working with customer teams and customers is an advantage
- Industry certification (Examples include ITIL, APICS, six sigma)
- Strong and broad knowledge of architectures, systems, and solution designs across a range of Digital solutions and Digital environment (mobile, web, omni-channel solutions, social media technologies, other new emerging technologies)
- Experience applying enterprise patterns (layered architecture, Microsoft enterprise patterns) and documenting analysis and design using OOA/OOD models
Customer Solution Architect Job Description
- Supports Business development discussion in the pre-sales and engagement phase
- Influences technical mindset of the customer via architecture meetings and workshops in the Customer Engagement phase
- Identifies the Business groups involved and coordinates the x-BU activities for initial phase of the solution development
- Act as key bridge between sales and delivery phase to identify and manage risks and assure customer satisfaction
- Develop the technical part of Solution and work closely with product lines and partners
- Capture and manage the functional and non-functional requirements by using industry best practices, and also create interface specifications
- Present offered network architecture and solution design to customer and verify/adapt it during realization phase
- Working across Business groups and 3rd party eco system ensuring correctly scaled solutions are in place on time
- Support design of IOT service delivery network and service delivery capability with focus on ensuring solutions are correctly scaled to deliver correct quality of service
- Key contributor to ensure Service delivery quality, contractual service delivery, SLA’s and KPI’s for end to end service are achievable
- 5+ years’ experience with creating (not just maintenance of) public (Internet) web sites and applications rich interactive internal web applications (HTML, HTML5, Javascript, Jquery, CSS, AJAX, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC)
- 3+ years of Agile delivery experience
- 5+ years’ experience with creating .ASMX or WCF Web services
- 5+ years’ experience C# .NET Application Development and 5+ years’ experience implementing C# based Windows Services and using all major core classes of the .NET framework
- 5+ years’ experience creating and maintaining database schemas and stored procedures, creating DTDs, XML Schemas, parsing and creating complex XML documents, creating and applying XSLT transformations
- 5+ years’ experience with writing/reading messages to/from message queues
Customer Solution Architect Job Description
- Tie security risk exposure to customer business objectives and impact (including Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, and data privacy requirements when applicable.)
- Conduct maturity assessments and technology gap analysis for network security within client environments
- Communicate threat and risk profiles to executives and individual contributors and facilitate progress towards required improvements (design concepts, architectural mindset, IT analysis/analytical thinking, enterprise perspective and process knowledge)
- Participate in bid qualification and definition of the bid strategy of large, complex or non-standard sales projects relate to Airline Communications and Business Solutions
- In charge to propose or validate solutions architectures involving but not limited to WAN, LAN & WLAN, Managed Security Services, Cyber security, VoIP/IPT, CRM, Mobility, IoT, SDN … technologies
- Accountable for developing the most suitable solution to meet customer requirements, in a reusability logic
- For managed solutions, if nonstandard items, in charge to describe the management principles and the proposed service
- Has to define the best operational organization to roll-out the solution and the service proposed (including planning) and to evaluate the impact on implementation and support processes
- Provide commitments values and associated measurement tools and risk analysis allowing Sales channels to define SLA and the right level of penalties to commit on
- Evaluate all the non-standard costs, planning, and associated risks
- High-productivity development track record in Agile environment
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, to design and convey the solution, provide technical direction to the Digital Customer Experience team and client stakeholders
- Be comfortable working with and addressing both developers and C-level personnel
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and independently
- Demonstrate an aptitude and willingness to enhance knowledge
- Strong technical background and excellent problem solving skills
Customer Solution Architect Job Description
- Solution Audits
- Lead projects from initiation till closure
- Demonstrate technical leadership at team level
- Identify risks at project level and guide the team /client accordingly to mitigate them
- Independently execute projects as SME
- CSA will focus on creating blueprint solutions as part of Nokia’s Network Solutions Practice for Cable / Multi-Service Operators as MSOs transform their networks
- Participate as a member of internal core team with specialist knowledge/experience/expertise for key Network Solutions Virtualized Fixed Access, Backhaul Solutions, SDN/NFV solution for MSO segment
- Adopt a consulting-led approach to client engagement, leading with Digital Workplace Assessment such as CX Agile Consulting
- Lead CCM solution architecture design across multiple corporate and government clients
- Providing direction and mentoring to multiple solution architecture and implementation teams based on pragmatic best practice commercial solution options
- Experience of creating customer solution in the IOT, Core networks LPWA, NB IoT & BSS technology areas
- Experience as a senior solution architect leading customer discussions for a global organization
- Have deep experience in designing customer solutions for CSP’s and their customers
- Have extensive solutioning experience in Intelligent Network, Network Management System and Packet Core
- Experience of solutioning to leverage hosted and cloud environments and 3rd party solutions
- Experience of various IOT verticals and use cases and the impacts the drive into solution design