Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities: Collaborates with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions. Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and ensure technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives. Designs and architects cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability. Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current collaboration capabilities. Assesses existing systems and develop migration strategies to transition on-premises applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Designs integration solutions to enable seamless DATA flow between cloud and on-premises environments. Defines and enforces security best practices and compliance standards for cloud-based systems. Develops and maintains cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures. Provides guidance and support to development teams to ensure adherence to cloud architecture standards and best practices. Develops or produces the technical design document to match the solution design specifications. Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and rFP/rFI responses. Assists with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution. Responsible for influencing and guiding members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals. Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC. On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team. Serves as a subject matter expert on cloud technologi…