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Job Responsibilities:
Partner with account executives and sales leaders to qualify opportunities, identify customer objectives, and assess strategic fit.
Lead technical discovery workshops to understand current-state architecture, pain points, constraints, processes, data flows, integration landscape, security requirements, and target outcomes.
Apply structured qualification approaches to assess business value, solution scope, budget alignment, decision process, competition, risks, and probability of success.
Identify expansion opportunities across adjacent digital solution areas, including integration, automation, AI, cloud, data, cybersecurity, observability, and managed services.
Convert customer requirements into solution assumptions, scope boundaries, dependencies, risks, and measurable success criteria.
Design end-to-end enterprise solution architectures that align with customer strategy, technical standards, operational requirements, and commercial constraints.
Develop architecture options and clearly communicate trade-offs across cost, scalability, resilience, security, delivery timeline, licensing, integration complexity, and operational effort.
Define logical, conceptual, and high-level technical architecture for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Design solutions involving APIs, integration middleware, event-driven architecture, business process automation, workflow, low-code platforms, identity and access management, security operations, data platforms, and AI/ML capabilities as applicable.
Ensure proposed designs address non-functional requirements including availability, performance, scalability, recoverability, observability, auditability, data protection, security, and regulatory compliance.
Validate technical feasibility with vendors, technical specialists, delivery architects, and third-party partners.
Act as the trusted technical advisor during customer meetings, workshops, demonstrations, presentations, and technical evaluations.
Translate complex technology concepts into clear business outcomes for executive stakeholders and into actionable technical detail for architects and engineering teams.
Build customer-specific value narratives that connect proposed capabilities to operational efficiency, revenue protection, customer experience, risk reduction, resilience, and modernization goals.
Facilitate whiteboarding and design-thinking sessions with customer teams and internal stakeholders.
Represent the SI professionally at executive briefings, vendor events, customer workshops, and industry forums.
Lead or contribute to high-quality technical responses for RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, tenders, statements of work, and solution proposals.
Produce solution architecture documents, bills of materials, scope statements, assumptions, exclusions, implementation approaches, delivery plans, and acceptance criteria.
Collaborate with delivery, PMO, finance, procurement, legal, and vendors to validate effort estimates, commercials, licensing, margins, contractual commitments, and delivery risk.
Ensure proposals are technically accurate, complete, differentiated, compliant with bid requirements, and aligned with customer evaluation criteria.
Support bid governance, internal reviews, technical risk assessment, solution assurance, and executive approvals.
Participate in post-bid presentations, technical clarification sessions, negotiation support, and customer technical defenses.
Define proof-of-concept or proof-of-value objectives, scope, timelines, success measures, required environments, integrations, and resource needs.
Build, configure, or coordinate demonstrations and prototypes that validate priority use cases and differentiate the proposed solution.
Lead technical evaluation activities, document outcomes, and transition validated designs into delivery-ready scope.
Maintain reusable demo assets, reference architectures, proposal templates, accelerators, and industry use cases.
Work closely with sales, solution architects, delivery teams, project managers, managed services, vendor alliance teams, and subject-matter experts.
Provide clear presales-to-delivery handover documentation, including scope, architecture, assumptions, risks, dependencies, commercials, and customer commitments.
Mentor junior presales engineers and contribute to technical capability development across the SI organization.
Contribute to go-to-market offerings, packaged services, reusable solution patterns, thought leadership, and competitive intelligence.
Maintain current knowledge of assigned vendor portfolios, market trends, enterprise architecture practices, and relevant industry regulations.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related discipline.
Relevant postgraduate study, architecture certification, vendor certification, or business qualification is an advantage.
From 6-8 years of experience in enterprise IT, including at least 3–4 years in presales, solution architecture, consulting, or customer-facing technical roles.
Demonstrated experience designing and positioning enterprise solutions for medium-to-large organizations.
Proven involvement in complex sales cycles, RFPs, technical bids, solution demonstrations, and customer workshops.
Experience working for a system integrator, value-added reseller, consulting organization, managed service provider, or enterprise technology vendor is strongly preferred.
Experience coordinating multi-vendor solutions and working with implementation and delivery teams.
