Lead Cloud Solution Architect- Public Sector
- World Wide Technology
- 7 - 12 years
- Kolkata
- 4 months ago
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Job Description
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 7 years progressive experience in a related field required
- A minimum of 5 years of experience designing, deploying, and implementing Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud technologies in accordance with industry best practices
- Minimum of 5 years of consultative experience supporting Public Sector customers (Federal or SLED), with a strong understanding of mission priorities, procurement cycles, and stakeholder engagement.
- Bachelor s Degree in a related field (i.e. Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering)
- Willing to travel 30-40%
- Understanding of Public, Private, & Hybrid Cloud Strategies
- Deep understanding of Cloud ecosystem products and solutions
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal with great attention to detail
- Independent and self-motivated and thorough
- Troubleshooting skills (patience and determination to find and solve problems)
- Ability to understand technology interdependencies and how various components integrate with one another
Strongly Desired Skills:
- Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end consulting solution pipelines, including forecasting profitability, optimizing deal quality, and driving timely close rates across public sector engagements.
- Deep familiarity with SLED and Federal procurement processes, including hands-on experience crafting responses to RFPs/RFIs and navigating compliance, contracting vehicles, and proposal development workflows. Specialized expertise in one or more of the following:
- Cloud strategy and adoption patterns
- Cloud modernization and migration
- Cloud container management and Kubernetes platforms (i.e. AKS, EKS, GKE)
- Cloud AI and data platform technologies (i.e. OpenAI, Azure Fabric, AWS RedShift)
- Application architecture and development in the cloud
- Core Cloud infrastructure Networking, Security, Compute, and Storage
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline development for automated cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (i.e. ARM/Bicep, Terraform, Ansible), application code deployments (i.e. GitOps) and associated agile tools (i.e. Azure DevOps, JIRA, etc.)
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, etc.
- Fluent understanding of Agile and/or ITIL
- Understanding of the Cloud Cost models and Optimization strategies
- Experience working with and integrating other vendors such as VMware, PaloAlto, NetApp, Red Hat and other cloud technologies and ISVs
- Experience and working knowledge of infrastructure concepts and technologies such as Networking, Data Center, and Security
Position Overview:
As a Lead Cloud Solution Architect Public Sector, you function as both a consultant and technical leader. As a consultant, you will meet with the business and IT leaders of our clients, understand their ambitions, and pain points, and develop a vision of how to best solve their problems. As a technical leader, you will actualize the vision by designing and delivering engagements involving WWTs service offerings and technical teams. You will serve as a thought leader and technical expert in Cloud solutions and technologies.
You will be responsible for executing our customer-facing engagements, and planning and organizing are two of your strong characteristics. You are willing to take on the responsibility of learning tools of the trade when required, and you enjoy working closely with customers and team members. You will be expected to communicate daily with various internal and external customers and deliver and support customer solutions. The position will have great demands for imaginative thinking, with the need to be flexible and committed.
You will have the technical acumen with a cloud focus to provide guidance and support to other members of the team to ensure project success. Teamwork is critical to the role, working together to deliver a high quality, reliable service to our customers. We are seeking highly qualified technical experts for this role. You will have a strong broad-based generalist foundation with specialized, proven experience within the Cloud space.
Key Responsibilities:
Solutions Development :
- Work with WWT account teams to educate them on cloud capabilities and drive business development and sales
- Foster deep relationships with stakeholders at strategic customers and with the WWT sales field, instilling confidence in WWT s Cloud capabilities and offerings
- Work with Sales Engineers/Cloud Consultants to review and validate understanding of customer requirements and translate initial scope into actionable items
- Build relationships across the organization to scope and deliver cross-functional and cross-domain solutions such as Digital, Security, AI, Analytics, Automation, and Enterprise Architecture
- Spearheads the strategic design of innovative solutions by leveraging deep knowledge of the evolving technology landscape and maximizing internal WWT capabilities
- Actively pursue business opportunities at large, complex customers; work with clients and internal WWT Teams to develop and negotiate statements of work, including project scope, deliverables, timelines, and costs.
- Build productive solution development teams, leveraging junior team members to support their growth and development
Technical Leadership :
- Represent WWT s technical expertise to team members and customers through an in-depth knowledge of Cloud technologies and WWT s capabilities
- Design and implement Cloud solutions and service offerings at customer sites - locally, regionally, and nationally - and provide feedback to drive continuous improvement
- Serves as a trusted advisor to clients, adeptly understanding their unique needs and crafting tailored recommendations that drive value and foster long-term partnerships
- Deliver with strong analytical, quantitative, and conceptual thinking skills and effective interpersonal and communication skills to ensure successful client projects & team performance
- Maintain expert level knowledge on WWT solution offerings and industry cloud technologies including the completion of assigned courses and relevant certification exams when applicable.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and advancements within existing technologies
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Data Science & AnalyticsRole Category: Business Intelligence & AnalyticsRole: Business Intelligence & Analytics - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: World Wide TechnologyLocation(s): Kolkata+ View Contact
Keyskills: Procurement Automation Networking Analytical Technical leadership Javascript Troubleshooting Continuous improvement Forecasting Analytics
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