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The Senior Solutions Architect is a subject matter expert who engages with clients and collaborates with internal stakeholders to design innovative solutions, define transformation strategies, and establish the architectural vision for complex client environments.
Adopting a consultative approach, you deliver services across the full spectrum of Campus, Cloud, and Datacenter infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with client objectives and business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with clients to understand business requirements, perform analysis, and drive problem resolution.
- Operate across enterprise architecture layers and the broader value chain to design cohesive, integrated solutions.
- Proactively identify and develop opportunities for value-added consultancy engagements.
- Evaluate and define optimal solution architectures, assessing trade-offs across cost, performance, and scalability.
- Review and validate solution designs, ensuring alignment with specifications, standards, and best practices.
- Recommend and contribute to the development of new go-to-market solutions, leveraging industry and vertical expertise.
- Continuously analyse external trends to identify and assess emerging technologies.
- Contribute to the development of use cases across business, infrastructure, and functional domains.
Knowledge and Attributes:
- Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills, complemented by excellent interpersonal abilities to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Develops and applies advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures to support solution design.
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies, including AI-driven networking, Infrastructure as Code, Zero Trust, and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).
- Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, including sales, product management, and service delivery.
- Possesses a solid understanding of key concepts and strategic positioning of leading vendors within the networking domain
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Holds a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in computer science, engineering, business, or a related discipline.
- Possesses certification and practical knowledge of enterprise architecture and IT service management frameworks, such as TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, and COBIT.
Required Experience
- Demonstrates advanced experience in client engagement and consulting, with a strong capability in assessing and translating client requirements into effective solutions.
- Possesses extensive experience in integrating solutions within the broader business context, aligning with enterprise architecture, industry standards, and established best practices.
- Proven track record in the end-to-end lifecycle of solution development, including design, positioning, sales, and delivery.
- Fluent in English with proficiency in Dutch.
Workplace type: Hybrid Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in RD.
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