Client Principal Architect, Cloud Digital – Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Goods
Presidio
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Drive Digital Services Sales. In partnership with sales teams, formulate and execute a technical sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of Presidio Digital Services - application modernization, application development, software development lifecycle (SDLC), artificial intelligence (AI), and data estate and platform modernization.
- Understand Customer Current State. Proactively drive discovery and understanding of customer IT current state, goals, outcomes, and initiatives across Business, Technical, Operational, and Financial facets. Research industry trends and topics and develop discovery approaches.
- Develop and lead workshops to drive relevant discovery. Document customer current state to assist customer and sales teams target future state architectures and roadmaps.
- Lead opportunities for relevant services to achieve technical win of Presidio services solutions. Identify customer stakeholders and their individual success criteria and needs.
- Create and lead technical solution approaches and next steps aligned to customer stakeholders.
- Align, vet and coordinate Presidio technical resources as needed. Engage C-level/SVP/VP/Director level at clients directly.
- Actively participate as a liaison between customers, sales and delivery resources to ensure customer success. Lead the collaboration with delivery engineering on driving quality and properly risk managed solutions and associated formal scopes of work.
- Analyze and assess client requirements and determine target services approach, solutions, and roadmaps. Create and deliver compelling technical proposals directly to clients, including relevant drawings, diagrams and analysis.
- Maintain a high level of technical excellence and evangelism across multiple relevant solution architecture and product areas. Lead the curation and delivery of relevant technical knowledge, presentations, and conversations at all client levels and customer related events.
- Actively participate in technical champion programs and communities. Attain certifications when appropriate. Learn, discuss and present new and emerging relevant topics to internal stakeholders and clients.
- Actively participate in client account related activities that establish the Solution Architect as a trusted advisor internally and with customers, such as: Account planning, EBCs, social events, etc.
- Engage Presidio team members, actively participate in team activities, and contribute on collaboration tools to drive an open, positive, inclusive, resilient, change-orientated team culture.
- Be a steward of the PRESIDIO CORE VALUES –Excellence, Forward-Thinking, Accountability, One Presidio.
- Develop working relationships with vendor partner teams and peers, prioritizing the hyper-scaler cloud solutions and relevant ecosystems.
- Contribute to and drive execution of relevant partner vendor GTM strategies.
- Actively plan and execute growth and career development activities. Seek and collaborate on improvements to presales processes and GTM.
- Contribute to the success of others in sales and presales. Actively mentor and enable others. Share methods, content, and lessons learned with others.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
- Overall 10+ years of relevant experience
- 7+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or consulting in digital and/or cloud technologies
- 5+ years of specific domain experience in one or more of the following: application modernization, application development, software development lifecycle (SDLC), artificial intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), and/or data estate modernization and modern data platforms
- Experience working in Manufacturing or Retail or Consumer Goods (Vertical) solutions and/or companies
- 5+ years hands on experience Azure or GCP ( Azure strongly preferred)
- Demonstrated comfort leading presentations, solution demonstrations and whiteboard sessions with all levels of customer stakeholders
- Thrive well with challenges in a growing organization.
- Self-motivated with thoughts and suggestions for process improvements
- Aptitude for consultative presales: be curious and creative
- Growth mindset and drive for trying new ideas and actively seek mentoring and coaching
- Collaborative style and the ability to work with diverse set of stakeholders
- Expert time management and ability to set expectations in a timely manner
- Ability to provide timely feedback loops to leadership.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
application modernizationapplication developmentsoftware development lifecycle (SDLC)artificial intelligence (AI)Generative AI (GenAI)data estate modernizationcloud technologiesarchitecturedesignimplementation
Soft Skills
consultative presalescollaborative styleself-motivatedgrowth mindsettime managementpresentation skillsproblem-solvingmentoringcommunicationcreativity
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreemilitary experience