
Client Principal Architect, AWS, SLED
Presidio
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Connecticut • Massachusetts • United States
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About the role
- Drive Digital and Cloud Migration Services Sales.
- In partnership with sales teams, formulate and execute a technical sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of Presidio Digital and Cloud Migration Services - application modernization, application development, software development lifecycle (SDLC), artificial intelligence (AI), data estate and platform modernization, and cloud migration.
- 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.
- Technical Account Leadership.
- Serve as the technical lead for all client projects and workstreams for relevant services.
- Oversee architecture and design decisions across multiple domains such as, (but not limited to), AWS, Snowflake, Tableau, Informatica, and modern data platforms.
- Facilitate alignment between Presidio teams and client leadership to ensure unified strategy and execution.
- Act as executive-facing technical advisor, engaging confidently with C-suite stakeholders.
- Build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups, from ICs to executives.
- Lead strategic roadmap discussions and present Presidio’s POV on emerging trends (AI, Cloud, Data).
- Actively participate in client account related activities that establish the role as a trusted advisor internally and with customers, such as: Account planning, EBCs, social events, etc.
- Technical Opportunity Leadership.
- 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 Manager/VP/Director level at clients directly.
- Ensure solutions adhere to industry standards and SLED compliance requirements.
- Practice Delivery Engagement.
- 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.
- Understand and be able to speak to technical details and updates from Solution Owners, Project Managers, Delivery Leads and Presales Architects Solution Architecture, Design and Documentation.
- 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.
- Technical Excellence & Evangelism.
- 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.
- Team Engagement and Enable Culture.
- 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.
- Partner Relationships.
- 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.
- Continuous Improvement & Innovation.
- Actively plan and execute growth and career development activities.
- Seek and collaborate on improvements to presales processes and GTM.
- Enable Others.
- Contribute to the success of others in sales and presales.
- Actively mentor and enable others.
- Share methods, content, and lessons learned with others.
- Local Area Prescence and Client Engagement.
- Able to travel to client sites within the New England and Northeast area.
- Able to be on site at key clients at least twice per month. 50% Travel expected.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
- Overall 10+ years of relevant experience
- 7+ years of presales, architecture, design, implementation, and/or consulting in digital and/or cloud technologies
- 5+ years of specific domain experience in one or many of the following: application modernization, application development, software development lifecycle (SDLC), artificial intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), data estate modernization and modern data platforms, and/or cloud migrations
- 7+ years of experience in in designing technical solutions for State, Local Government and Education (SLED)
- 5+ years hands on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies
- Demonstrated comfort leading practitioner level presentations, solution demonstrations and whiteboard sessions
- Demonstrated comfort leading CIO/CTO level presentations, solution demonstrations and whiteboard sessions
- 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
- Remote work options
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 migrationtechnical solution designAWSSLED compliance
Soft Skills
consultative presalesgrowth mindsetcollaborative styletime managementmentoringcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementpresentation skills
Certifications
Bachelor's degreemilitary experiencecloud technology certificationsAWS certificationstechnical architecture certificationsproject management certificationsconsulting certificationsAI certificationsdata management certificationsSLED compliance certifications