Technology Consulting - Solution Architect - Manager

Solution Architect - Consulting

 

 

10 -12 years of experience (M1/M2)

 

 

Job Purpose:

 

EY is looking for inspired, result oriented and quality focused professional with strong consulting and technical skills to provide consulting services and execute on various Digital Transformation projects for our clients across the MENA region and industry sectors.

 

The candidate may need to contribute and involve in Go-To-Market activities including sales, pre-sales, business development for the firm and actively engage in responding to RFPs, Oral presentations to clients and negotiations.

 

The candidate will be expected to effectively leverage the global capabilities and resources of EY, its alliance partners, technology and digital service providers, vendors and provide best-in-class consulting services on Solution/Enterprise architecture, and technology solutions to complex business problems to enable digital transformation journey of the client.

 

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

• Provide advice on long term Solution / Enterprise architecture decisions to Client’s senior management of their Business and IT streams.
• Build and develop the Solution / Enterprise Architecting capability through pro-active engagement with EY practice teams, partners, and clients.
• Perform sales, pre-sales, business development for the firm and actively engage in responding to RFPs /RFI’s, Oral pitches and negotiations.
• Plan and run workshops for Client’s Business and Technology Executives and involving client partners and vendors, on Solution Architecture exclusively, driving Transition of applications and solutions from incumbent vendors of clients, or as part of Digital Transformation, addressing Business, Digital and IT Strategy and objectives of the client.
• Work closely with professionals spanning strategy, business, application, infrastructure security and data architecture disciplines to accelerate our clients’ enterprise architecture maturity definition and transformation journey, leveraging internal capabilities and tapping into an ecosystem of partners and technology vendors and service providers.
• Develop technical and commercial business cases for clients to invest in technology, tools, infrastructure, and people capabilities, and present it at various levels of client organization in line with their enterprise architecture roadmap.
• Engage with various technology vendors, technology start-ups and service providers to evaluate them on behalf of clients and provide recommendations.
• Anticipate and understand major technology changes and digital trends to enable the client to succeed in a competitive landscape.
• Setup and actively develop and contribute to Architecture CoE covering EA, Business Architecture, Solutions Architecture, Application Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Security Architecture and Data Architecture
• Interface and communicate with the various onsite and/or offshore stakeholders and coordinators on a regular basis to ensure smooth execution of responsibilities and demonstrate value.
• Timely completion of assigned tasks, within budget and at highest quality and provide regular status reporting to clients, managers, and leadership.

 

 

Qualifications and Skills

 

• BTech/MCA from a reputed Institution
• Extensive consulting experience in Big-4s, IT Industry Majors or Management Consulting firms
• Experience in performing the role of technical owner/ co-owner for large IT transformation projects.
• At least 5 years in Architecting and leading the implementation of medium/large solutions of Cloud solutions (Azure / GCP), Microsoft Technologies, UI Frameworks (React /Angular), Micro Services
• Good understanding and exposure to large platforms and systems, including major ERPs, CRMs, Digital, Cloud and Big Data Platforms and Channels, Service Management Platforms like ServiceNow/BMC Remedy, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS providers, leading Core Banking Systems, Intelligent Automation technologies including RPA and AI
• Possess good understanding and exposure to SOA, Agile delivery, DevOps and industry standard delivery and quality frameworks.
• Possess excellent people interfacing, negotiation and management skills.
• Excellent team player who can reach out and collaborate very effectively with geographically distributed technology, business function and support teams to deliver to the client.
• Open to travelling extensively to MENA region and work directly with EY clients on projects.
• Experience in creating and conducting impactful client presentations and articulate the technical and non-technical deliverables to clients at various levels.
• Experience in running physical and virtual workshops independently and well versed with tools and technologies to enable the same.
• Demonstrable professional technical writing expertise, visual representation, and language skills.
• Experienced in productivity and diagramming tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
• Experience in working with clients in MENA GCC countries desirable.
• Enterprise Architecture Certification desirable
• Experience in enterprise architecture tools desirable